Word: forte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...home is the fourth floor of the cavernous Louisiana Civil Courts Building in New Orleans. But the nine judges seldom sit all together in New Orleans or elsewhere. To handle their vast circuit, they shuttle about in three-judge panels that sit in any of five other cities: Atlanta, Fort Worth, Houston, Jacksonville, Montgomery...
...Navy, which got into the act first, has been perfecting Skyhook rescues for seven years. Earlier this year, the Army used the technique to lift 35 men, including two Special Forces generals, during exercises at Fort Bragg, N.C. Now the Air Force is also trying the method, and 48 Lockheed C-130 transports have been modified with the forks and winches needed for Skyhook lifts. "I've never experienced anything like it in my military career," says Special Forces veteran Sergeant First Class Johnny Dolin. "First there is a slight tug at the shoulders, then you're soaring...
...system upon which the U.S. and Canada are spending, and will continue to spend, many millions of dollars, are to be closed down. Some sprawling manned-aircraft installations, of diminishing usefulness in the reign of the guided missile, will go. So will four Army training bases (Camp Atterbury, Ind., Fort Custer, Mich., and Camp Parks and Camp San Luis Obispo, both in California) that have, in the absence of full-scale war, been inactive for months, and are now inhabited only by caretakers and cobwebs...
...Left. Also slated to end its life as a military installation is Fort Jay on Governors Island just half a mile off the southern tip of Manhattan. A shrewd Dutch settler purchased the island in 1637 from Indians for-accord ing to legend-two axheads, a string of beads and a few nails. Parts of Fort Jay still bear the marks of British shells from the American Revolution. Since 1946, it has been headquarters for the U.S. First Army, which is to be consolidated with the Second Army at Fort George Meade, Maryland...
MARGUERITE OSWALD, 57, the assassin's mother, lives in Fort Worth and wallows in woe and self-pity. She still insists shrilly that her son did not murder Kennedy alone, says: "I think Lee was a patsy. I think President Kennedy was a victim of people in the State Department." She complains that she has been taken by money-grabbing writers who gleaned information from her, then "didn't even send me $10." She asks, "Why shouldn't there be as much sympathy for me as the President's family? After all, my son was murdered...