Word: forte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Johnson's disappointment, Moyers at first bypassed a Washington career, spent a year as a Rotary fellow at Scotland's University of Edinburgh. Then he announced that he had been called by God, returned to Fort Worth's Baptist seminary, and in 1959 was ordained. Only a few months later, at Johnson's urging, Moyers finally went to Washington, where the Senator began to lean heavily on him as a speechwriter and all-round political handyman...
...caparisoned, riderless horse. A sword in its scabbard hung from the black saddle, a pair of gleaming boots were reversed in the stirrups-a sign that a commander had fallen and would never ride again. Black Jack, a 16-year-old dark chestnut gelding, is the pride of Fort Myer's stable of 27 ceremonial horses, and has performed in dozens of military funerals over the past ten years. Now the animal was skittish, prancing sideways and endlessly tugging at the arm of the Army private...
Just two hours after the burial of President Kennedy, the body of Lee Harvey Oswald was put into a hastily dug grave in Fort Worth's Rose Hill cemetery. The arrangements were made quietly by the Secret Service. The only mourners were Oswald's 56-year-old mother Marguerite, his Russian-born wife Marina, 22, his two baby daughters and his brother Robert, 29, a Denton, Texas, brick salesman...
...were to be found among friends, so seven newsmen were recruited for the job. Texas ministers, for all their talk about the shame of Dallas and the redemption of sin, seemed notably reluctant to preside. So the police chief telephoned the Rev. Louis A. Saunders, executive secretary of the Fort Worth Council of Churches, who left off watching Kennedy's funeral on TV and went to the cemetery. "Someone," he explained, "had to help this family...
...attempt to get Soviet citizenship, his marriage there to Hospital Pharmacist Marina Prusakova-had become known within hours after his arrest (TIME, Nov. 29). He returned to the U.S. in June 1962, with his wife and four-month-old baby, and drifted among various odd jobs in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. There the Oswalds met several Russian immigrants, notably a sympathetic woman, Mrs. Ruth Paine, 31, who quickly befriended Marina...