Word: forte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When he first hove into Washington, McNamara left congressional committees speechless with his matchless grasp of detail. Said Pennsylvania's Democratic Representative Daniel Flood: "I had the impression that if we would ask the secretary for the number of nuts and bolts in Warehouse No. 1, drawer 7, Fort Dix, he most probably could tell us." But Congressmen soon became resentful of overwhelmingly documented proposals that left little room for debate; nor was McNamara's popularity on Capitol Hill burnished by his abrasive style and transparent impatience with congressional dillydallying...
...whites, 700 Negroes) for his trial on the charge of killing Jonathan M. Daniels, 26, an Episcopal seminarian from Keene, N.H. The victim and the Rev. Richard Morrisroe, 26, a Catholic priest from Chicago, had been among 28 persons arrested last Aug. 14 while picketing three stores in nearby Fort Deposit that allegedly discriminate against Negroes. Jailed in Hayneville, the workers were abruptly released without bond a week later, on the same day that their cases were transferred to federal court. Shortly afterward, in front of the red frame Cash Store two blocks from the courthouse...
From a federal court in Montgomery at week's end came a final, Sophoclean footnote to the tragedy. Ruling that civil rights workers' original arrests in Fort Deposit were illegal, Judge Frank M. Johnson held that they had simply been exercising their right of peaceful assembly. Thus, Jon Daniels' life might never have been lost if his own civil rights had not been violated in the first place...
...Liberation, if we can demonstrate to the world that those who ride the back of the tiger will surely end up inside, then we can continue to help build the kind of world in which the causes of conflict would largely not appear. Joseph S. Dolan Second Lieutenant Fort Gordon, Ga. John S. Dolan Jr., President Senior Graduation Class of 1965 University of Connecticut
Having trouble reaching those nooks and crannies with your toothbrush? Unable to master the approved up-and-down stroke? Does dental floss shred in your mouth and stick between your teeth? Bleeding gums, perhaps? Then Aqua Tec Corp. of Fort Collins, Colo., has the perfect answer...