Word: forte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eight finalists for senior class marshal were elected yesterday. They are Michael E. Abram, of Kirkland House and Hollywood, Fla.; Jerry L Beasley, of Quincy House and Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; William E. Kerstetter, of Dunster House and Greencastle, Ind.; John A. McCluskey of Quincy House and Middleton, Ohio.; George Q. Neville, of Quincy House and Winchester; Keith W. Sedlacek, of Quincy House and Valley Forge. Penn.; William F. Weld, of Adams House and Smithtown, N.Y.; and Barry L. Williams, of Leverett House and New Rochelle...
...appointments calendar, Dwight Eisenhower, 75, continued a steady recovery from the heart attack that struck during his golfing vacation at the Augusta National Golf Club. Out of the oxygen tent, Ike resumed a favorite hobby, painting, was wheeled out to the porch of his suite at the Fort Gordon, Ga., Army hospital and told reporters he was "fine, fine." At week's end, doctors arranged to move the patient on Monday to Washington's Walter Reed Hospital for convalescence...
Such is the sad case in Los Angeles, where trustees of the new Los Angeles County Art Museum, open just eight months, voted unanimously to dismiss their director, Harvard-trained Richard F. Brown, 49. He leaves for a new post as director of a planned museum in Fort Worth, which will house the multimillion-dollar collection of the late Kay Kimbell. But for Brown, who had been director since 1961, when the old county museum was mostly mastodon tusks and geological specimens, parting was such sour sorrow...
Over the tall green pines of south eastern Alabama, singly and in forma tions of seven, the ungainly olive-drab helicopters swoop and buzz like dragonflies. Night and day they churn above the Army Aviation Center at Fort Rucker. They blast the wire-grass country with rockets, machine-gun slugs and grenades. They execute intricate maneuvers high in the sky and inches off the ground, turning once-tranquil skies into some of the world's most congested airspace...
...youngest, fastest-growing branch. The other 70% are nearly all young volunteers fresh from high school and college, who become warrant officers* if they complete the flight course successfully. As new recruits, they take regular Army basic training for eight weeks and then go to Texas' Fort Wolters for four weeks of preflight instruction...