Word: forte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Boredom at Home Plate. From Fort Hamilton to Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn today is an amorphous urban sprawl, the most populous (2,600,000 in 80.9 sq.mi.) and proletarian of all five boroughs that comprise New York City. The turning point probably came between the time Durocher left the Dodgers (1948) and the time the Dodgers left Flatbush (1958). Now a housing project occupies Ebbets Field, and one of its occupants, Rodney Kenner, 9, buried the Bums for all time last week as he rode a bicycle where home plate used to be. "You know," said Rodney, "baseball is a bore...
...even with a more responsive audience, problems will remain. George Rosen is always droll as Finian, a dotty old Irishman who has stolen a crock of leprechaun gold and buried it near Fort Knox, an area he believes conducive to spontaneous generations. Carolyn Firth, his ready, nubile, and willing daughter, is a pretty girl and a charming actress. But neither of them seems quite at home in a brogue; Rosen at times simply deserts Belfast for Brooklyn. And Miss Firth, for all the attractiveness of her voice, shares with many of the other singers a tendency toward inaudibility...
...Also at Fort Belvoir, Army engineers are trying out the versatile Universal Engineer Tractor, which resembles a World War I tank, is mostly aluminum and weighs only 31,000 Ibs. The UET can be used as a bulldozer, grader, scraper, armored personnel carrier or general-purpose transport, has an over-the-road speed of better than 30 m.p.h. Some new items already in the engineers' toolbox: aluminum landing mats, plastic road surfaces (called "membranes"), and moisture-proof plastic maps that can be wadded up and tucked into a shirt pocket and still retain their original shape...
...Corps of Engineers is Essayons (Let's try)-an injunction they heeded with distinction in the tropics of the South Pacific and the frozen hills of Korea. Now they are learning to take the sands and swamps of South Viet Nam in stride. As an instructor at Fort Belvoir put it last week: "A bridge is a bridge wherever you build it. If you can build it one place, you can build it another...
...suppliers reach into almost every community in the nation; yet its prime plants are so concentrated in a few states and cities that aerospace fortunes can make or break the economies of those centers. General Dynamics and Bell Helicopter provide a third of the manufacturing jobs in Fort Worth. Boeing now plans to up its Seattle work force from 64,000 to 80,000, and there are delighted complaints about how this will put a real strain on the area's housing and school facilities. Lockheed is chiefly based in California, but its huge Georgia plant at Marietta...