Word: forte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...large, soft swelling on the left side of his neck. Beshoar knew it was a massive aneurysm of the carotid artery, and that he could do nothing about it. He did all he could to make the patient more comfortable, then referred him to the nearest Army hospital at Fort Lyon 90 miles away. There, two weeks later, Kit Carson died. The striking thing, said DeBakey, is that not until almost 90 years after this could any surgeon have done anything more than did Beshoar...
...learn," recalls Mrs. Amanda Garcia, now a clerk in a San Antonio store. "We were all just Mexicans in those days and Mexicans didn't mean much. I believe he really loved us as human beings." Adds Juan Gonzales, 50, a civil servant at Fort Sam Houston: "He respected the kids more than any other teacher we ever had." Says Manuel Sanchez, 48, a grocer: "He made us speak English. We did not like it at the time, but now we are happy he did." Echoes Juanita Ortiz, a waitress: "I remember him telling us seventh graders that anybody...
...Australia's Bruce Crampton, 29: the $100,000 Colonial National Invitation golf tournament; at Fort Worth. Tied for second at the start of the final round -postponed for two days by heavy rains-Crampton fired a four-under-par 66 that gave him a three-stroke victory, his second of 1965 (he also won the Bing Crosby National) and by far the richest of his career: first-place money...
...active divisions of about 15,000 men each. Of these divisions, five are in Europe, two in South Korea and one in Hawaii. The other eight are stationed in the U.S. as part of the so-called "strategic reserve." They are: the 1st and 2nd Armored Divisions at Fort Hood, Texas; the 1st Infantry Division at Fort Riley, Kans.; the 2nd Infantry Division at Fort Benning, Ga.; the 4th Infantry Division at Fort Lewis, Wash.; the 5th Infantry Division (mechanized) at Fort Carson, Colo.; the 101st Air borne Division at Fort Campbell, Ky.; and what is left of the 82nd...
...expanded-vinyl cloth was developed in the U.S. in the Fort Edward, N.Y., plant of Cohn-Hall-Marx Co. three years ago and nobody much in the U.S. cared. When a Cohn-Hall-Marx representative showed it around Paris though, big-name houses like Courreges, Dior, and V de V saw big new possibilities in this soft, slick stuff that draped so gracefully and was so easily printed with clear color and bold design. Now some of the big Paris houses are backing away a bit from what bids fair to be an all-out fad, but U.S. manufacturers...