Word: forte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first of the corporate jets - Lockheed's $1,450,000 JetStar - has experienced such a sudden sales lift that used JetStars now sell for $150,000 more than new ones because of a 15-month waiting period for delivery; after long-suffering patience, National Steel fort night ago received the 29th JetStar sold by Lockheed to corporate customers. North American Aviation, whose $795,000 Sabreliner followed the JetStar into the market, has sold 25 of the twin-jet planes in the past twelve months. The jet that has attracted the most orders-60 so far-will not even start...
...1880s subdued one of the last powerful Apache chiefs, the movie plays down the drama of the great Southwest, plays up three bright young faces from Beverly Hills. All that fuss about redskins seems picayune compared with the plight of Lieut. Troy Donahue. Setting femmes aflutter at Fort Delivery, Ariz., Troy bestrides a flesh-and-blood horse, but his acting is appropriately wooden. He is an animated Ken doll with golden hair, caught between the Barbie and Midge dolls impersonated by Suzanne Pleshette and Diane McBain...
...encouraging note was Bill Pfeiffer's 160'5" discus throw good for third in the college division. The toes was 10 feet better than Pfeiffer's previous best fort...
...mile flight to Torrejon, Spain, then the 3,100-mile leg to Dezful, Iran, with frequent in-flight refueling by Strategic Air Command KC-135 tankers. Some 2,500 paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division boarded twelve Military Air Transport Service C-135 jets at Kentucky's Fort Campbell, landed at Adana, Turkey, in a miserable rain. There they switched to C-130s, their usual jump planes. From all over the U.S., various cargo craft headed east with combat equipment...
...Communist guerrillas stealthily forded the moat surrounding the sleeping outpost of the government Self-Defense Corps, snipped the barbed wire and charged. Inside, Red agents, who had infiltrated the garrison disguised as recruits, machine-gunned loyal troops in their bunks, set off secretly placed charges that toppled the fort's three watchtowers. By dawn, 28 government men lay dead, 36 wounded, and the Viet Cong had made off with virtually every weapon on the base. Looking about the ruins, a Vietnamese survivor gestured at pools of coagulating blood, said smilingly to an American visitor: "Very...