Word: forte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fort Benning...
...brewery, other changes are under way. Some beermen are testing small aluminum kegs that provide draught beer for home refrigerators and could revive the draught-beer market, which has slumped from 75% to 18% of total consumption. After much delay, Carling last month started a continuous brewing plant at Fort Worth that makes beer by assembly-line process instead of in single vats; other beer executives are watching to see if the process accounts for sizable labor saving. Coors Co. of Colorado is developing a vertical process in which it grows its own grain, makes its own cans and adds...
Defense Secretary McNamara sounded like a proud father. "I have," he told newsmen, "today authorized the Army to organize a new division, the Air-mobile Division." To be organized at Fort Benning, Ga., the new 16,000-man outfit will be ready for action by mid-August. Said McNamara: "It places the Army on the threshold of an entirely new approach to the conduct of land battle...
...Green Berets, which purports to tell in fictional form "the previously untold stories of a group of true-life heroes." Its author, a Sheraton Hotel executive who had previously written a book about gunrunning in the Caribbean, was allowed to take the Special Forces guerrilla warfare course at Fort Bragg and then went to South Viet Nam as an accredited correspondent. He was unusually privileged, and saw the war at uncommonly close quarters. Though newsmen are noncombatants, Moore carried a Special Forces M-16 automatic rifle, dressed in regulation jungle fatigues, fought in more than a dozen actions, was credited...
Dongxoai was buttoning up for the night. A few hundred yards down the road from the tiny district capital, 55 miles north of Saigon, 24 U.S. seabees and soldiers were resting after a hard day's work building a Special Forces fort. Suddenly the radio in the darkened home of the district chief crackled, and a sentry on Dongxoai's unfinished airstrip blurted: "The Viet Cong are all over." In an instant, everything came unbuttoned: Communist mortar fire sent hot shrapnel up the village streets, recoilless-rifle shells slammed home, the night air buzzed with bullets. Then...