Word: forte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Messieur: Un vrai bijou! Vous avez aborde un sujet fort difficile avec une main de maitre. Mes plus sinceres felicitations. PAUL DUCHASTEL Quebec...
Beaten to the Draw. The new strongman, Lieut. General Nguyen Khanh, 36, is a goateed, poker-playing, guerrilla-fighting veteran. Like Big Minh, he attended the U.S. Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth and is considered staunchly pro-American. The irony of Khanh's accession is that it could have happened three months ago. Khanh and a few other disgruntled Vietnamese officers were actually planning to topple the Diem regime when Big Minh and his fellow conspirators beat them to the draw...
...renounced Communism in 1949, the year his opera Regina appeared), but kept a spare set of sharks' teeth pearly white, dear, for the English adaptation of Brecht's Threepenny Opera, which ran six years off-Broadway, made a jukebox gigolo of Mack the Knife; in Fort-de-France, Martinique, where police charged three sailors with beating him to death...
...Public Health Service's latest word on cigarette smoking was unquestionably the big conversational topic of the week. Banner headlines reflected the gravity of the conclusions: SMOKING CALLED GRAVE HAZARD (Fort Lauderdale News), CIGARETTES CAUSE CANCER (Chicago's American), IT'S OFFICIAL CIGARETTE SMOKING CAN KILL YOU (New York Herald Tribune). News stories spelled out every detail, and the editorial cartoonists were both anxious and melodramatic (see cuts). But in some of the collateral stories spawned by the report, the papers seemed as willing as the U.S. smokers to face up to the new dangers with...
...Connally hooked up with two extremely helpful men after passing his bar exam in 1938. He became Representative Lyndon Johnson's congressional secretary, won a Legion of Merit as a lieutenant aboard the carrier Essex in World War II, managed an Austin radio station, then became attorney for Fort Worth Oil Millionaire Sid Richardson. Tips from Richardson brought Connally a personal fortune of millions through deals in oil properties. The friendship of Johnson, whom Connally served as top strategist in every L.B.J. election campaign since 1937, brought him appointment as Secretary of the Navy under Jack Kennedy...