Word: forte
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...share in control (as of two months ago) of the mighty Titan II intercontinental missiles at bases in Arkansas, Kansas and Arizona. They are undergoing the Marine Corps' rugged boot-camp training in the forests at Quantico; are in charge of the Army's firing range at Fort Jackson; are chief instructor pilots at Williams Air Force Base; are overhauling U.S. tank engines in West Germany; and are helping create the new MX missile at the Strategic Air Command's missile design center outside Omaha...
...military life is not an easy one, and women are encountering many of the same problems that have traditionally confronted men. Explains Brigadier General Mary Clarke, commander of the Army's Fort McClellan: "Both the women and the men come from an easygoing civilian life into a regimented environment. They suffer homesickness; they find it hard to get up at 5 a.m. Some of the women have not been accustomed to eating three meals daily and are required to do so here. Thus they tend to gain weight at first. But they are soon in good shape...
There are cases, obviously, where sexual entanglements do occur. It appears, however, that even intraservice marriage can be penalized. At the Army's Fort Devens, Captain Michael Jalinsky, a West Pointer with an impressive record, was abruptly relieved of his command of a company and made the "alcohol and drug officer," a post that will not enhance his military career. The reason for his setback: he married Sergeant Sue-Anne Pierce and thus violated his post commander's dictum against "fraternization" between officers and lower ranks...
...special interests, though his own out-of-state contributions total more than Ravenel's. Helms has taken a different tack. He ridicules Ingram's obvious lack of sophistication and pictures him as naive and gullible--certainly not the kind of man North Carolinians should trust to hold down the fort against the Russians...
...roles, he insists, are inescapable coincidences of physique and casting. "I've just got the Fonda bones," he says, "tall and skinny." Still, some of his most memorable characters were created when those bones played against type-the magnificently klutzy dope in The Lady Eve, the martinet in Fort Apache, the scruffy bandit leader in Once Upon the Time in the West. But, as he admits, the image that has sustained his career is of the man with strained conscience, like the reluctant hero of The Ox-Bow Incident or of 12 Angry Men. "I guess I go overboard...