Word: forte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This was more like it. Wherever they went-in San Antonio, Houston and Fort Worth-the crowds were large, warm, and plainly in love with Jackie. Kennedy had been warned that Texas was enemy territory, indeed, Adlai Stevenson, who had been roughed up by a Texas crowd only last month, advised Kennedy Aide Arthur Schlesinger Jr. that some Dallasites had voiced concern over the President's safety. Now, with such fears apparently unrealized, President Kennedy was exuberant...
Late this afternoon, Secret Service men and the Dallas Police took into custody a 25-year-old man. He was arrested in Fort Worth, after driving there from Dallas. A Secret Service man and a Dallas policeman were also killed some distance from the area of the President's assassination...
...idea for the first revolver, financed production of prototypes by touring the West and selling doses of laughing gas to entertainment-starved settlers. The Mexican War made him big, and he expanded by selling to all comers, including Southern secessionists right up until the shooting at Fort Sumter. After his death in 1862, a succession of brilliant Yankee gun-smiths made Colt the world's most famous name in hand guns...
...students had come to the camp as counselors through the Harvard-Radcliffe American Indian Project, a Phillips Brooks House venture which last summer completed its third year. Camp Unitah, where the seven Harvard and Radcliffe students worked, was in Fort Duchesne, Utah, only 12 miles from the sun dance ground. Twenty-four other PBH volunteers worked with other tribes throughout the West...
...took part in programs the tribal councils sponsored. Camp Unitah, for example, has been operated by the Ute Tribal Council five years. In North Dakota, where two students taught rodeo skills to young Indian "cowboys," they worked as part of a recreation program sponsored by the affiliated tribes of Fort Berthold. At the White Mountain (Montana) reservation of the Apache, a Harvard volunteer joined a group of Indians in clearing camp sites, building cabins, and marking trails for a recreation park. Two 'Cliffies helped the Walker River Council of Schurz, Nevada, to prepare a roll of tribe members. When this...