Word: forte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They have gathered from all over the country on this dusty plain of Fort A.P. Hill in Virginia, some 90 miles south of Washington. There are flags, and the sound of whistles and bugles, and the exuberant cries of young voices, chanting as they march by. This is the tenth national jamboree of the Boy Scouts of America, and 32,000 youngsters have camped among the tall pines, like an army taking its rest after a string of victories...
...this must get to market in no more than a few days after it is caught, to help guard against spoilage. The Landlock Seafood Co. of Dallas has sold about $6 million worth of fresh fish this year to 175 different hotels, restaurants and supermarkets in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Company President Richard Polins says that he may soon start bringing fish overland from Boston and Seattle by teams of truckers driving nonstop. Said he: "We've built our business by the air, and this strike could cripple...
Perhaps the biggest winner from the strike has been the car-rental agencies. Nationwide business for the Hertz division of the RCA Corp. was up 10%; rentals by the firm jumped 25% in Manhattan and 35% in Atlanta. In Dallas-Fort Worth, demand for cars was so strong that National Car Rental System, a subsidiary of Household Finance Corp., ran out of vehicles...
...says Jorge Batista, 38, son of the island's late dictator, Fulgencio Batista, who was ousted by Castro in 1959. Jorge may be excused for being a little out of touch with political realities; he has lived mostly in Europe for the past 20 years. Now, from his Fort Lauderdale condo, he believes he "can feel the political heartbeating of my compatriots." But Jorge's counterrevolutionary passions are tempered by practicality. He works as a runway model at fashion shows and attends modeling school. "It is a finishing school for me," he says. "It will help me lead...
...diaries begin Dec. 27, 1935, shortly after he arrived in Ma nila to help Douglas MacArthur build a Philippine defense force. He was 45 and a major, with dubious prospects for advancement; like Grant before Fort Sumter, he was waiting for events. The last entry is dated March 14, 1967, two years before his death. Again like Grant, he had been elevated to the presidency - tout served with far greater success. In 1962 Historian Arthur Schlesinger Sr. asked 75 prominent "students of American history" to rate the Presidents up to 1961. Eisenhower, the 34th and last in line, came...