Word: forte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even as Johnson spoke, nearly 16,000 troops of the Army's recently created "Airmobile Division" were saddling up to leave their Fort Benning, Ga., base to head for South Viet Nam. Other troops required to bring the U.S. force in Viet Nam to 125,000 in the immediate future would be selected from inbeing units. Last week 3,700 paratroopers of the U.S. 101st Airborne Division-better known as the "Screaming Eagles"-landed at South Viet Nam's Cam Ranh...
Married. Lord Charles George William Colin Spencer-Churchill, 25, London insurance broker, tall (6 ft. 6 in.) handsome second son of Sir Winston's cousin the tenth Duke of Marlborough; and Texas Debutante Gillian Spreckels Fuller, 18, daughter of Fort Worth Oilman Andrew Fuller, and great-granddaughter of California Sugar King John D. Spreckels; in London, one year after they met at the Ascot races...
...South Viet Nam, including a contingent of some 3,900 troops of the historic 1st Infantry Division ("the Big Red One") that landed last week. On the way from Fort Campbell, Ky., was a 4,000-man brigade of the 101st Airborne Division. Also ticketed for Viet Nam is the Army's recently created 1st Cavalry Air Mobile Division now in training at Fort Benning, Ga. By the end of this year, the U.S. will almost certainly have nearly 200,000 men in Viet Nam, and if the Communists insist on stepping up their own effort, the U.S. troop...
...Does It Work? Now director of the Army Medical Research Laboratory at Fort Knox, Dr. Hoagland is still not sure how methylphenidate works. Like other analeptic drugs, it may stimulate the subcortical region of the brain and help control general alertness; it also seems to stimulate the respiratory center. But why does methylphenidate appear to be safer than other drugs? Dr. Hoagland suspects that the answers may eventually be traced to the drug's rapid excretion from the bloodstream and into the urine. "But until we understand more about coma," says he, "we cannot hope to understand Ritalin." Meanwhile...
...existing stations and for building handsome landscaped new ones. Shell, Sun Oil and Gulf are combining many of their new stations with restaurants, and Sun has opened a station in Canton, Ohio, with a built-in, drive-in branch of the Harter Bank & Trust Co. In Des Moines and Fort Worth, Continental Oil is building drive-in grocery stores next to new filling stations...