Word: forte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...omnibus rivers and harbors bill authorizing $1.9 billion for 144 projects, ranging from a $15 million flood-control system in Iowa Republican Representative H. R. Gross's home town of Waterloo to an $83 million initial grant for dredging Texas' Trinity River so that Dallas and Fort Worth might become seaports...
Because foreign central banks have built up?and cashed in?tremendous stocks of dollars, Fort Knox's bullion hoard, which backs the value of the dollar, has plunged in the past seven years from $21 billion to $13.9 billion. Foreigners now hold $27.7 billion in dollars?almost twice the value of the U.S. gold supply?and they can demand gold for them at any time. Though it is highly unlikely that they would ever cash in enough to break Fort Knox or force the U.S. to devalue the dollar, the mere fact that they have the power...
...Gaulle and Giscard d'Estaing have pushed to upgrade the trading power of gold (of which France has plenty), cashing in $800 million worth of dollars for U.S. bullion. Imitating the French, West Germany, Spain, The Netherlands, Belgium, and Switzerland have also traded in many millions of dollars for Fort Knox's gold...
Guilty Without Trial. Fortunately, this situation is bound to improve-all because of Madeline Colliflower, 46, a stubborn member of the Gros Ventre tribe (part of the Blackfoot nation) on Montana's Fort Belknap reservation. In 1963 the tribal court ordered Mrs. Colliflower to quit pasturing her cattle in someone else's field. Having apparently ignored the order, she was arrested by the reservation's Police Chief Joe Plumage and Officer Lyle Reddog, and haled before Indian Judge Cranston Hawley. She pleaded not guilty. But without ever giving her a trial, Judge Hawley offered her the choice...
...Delhi, the right-wing Jana Sangh Party wanted more than vague metallic threats. It wanted war−and now. Trains and buses brought adherents from as far as Jammu, north of Kashmir, and more than 250,000 saffron-clad demonstrators marched from the ancient Red Fort to Parliament, led by eleven buglers and 200 men on motor scooters. In unison, the throng chanted such slogans as, "Shastri, you cannot beg peace, you have to win it!" and "Tit for tat is the right policy against Pakistan...