Word: forte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...adviser to President Harry Truman from 1945 to 1953 embroiled his boss in a number of embarrassing controversies, among them receiving seven deep freezers from lobbyists in 1945 and three years later for accepting a medal from Argentina's Juan Perón; of a heart attack; at Fort Belvoir...
...Richards Fort Thomas...
...ever managed to make a film biography of the Indian leader, he wanted her to play the part of the star photojournalism Bourke-White captured in the pages of FORTUNE the gritty, yet poetic texture of industrial America in the 1930s, and her shot of Montana's Fort Peck Dam graced the first cover of LIFE. Bergen took to the shutter when her film career faltered, and in 1972 also made the cover of LIFE with her portrait of Comedian Charlie Chaplin and his wife Oona. Still, it will take all of Bergen's technique on both sides...
About 4,000 of the Cubans, overwhelmingly single and male, remain in federal custody awaiting sponsorship by a U.S. citizen or charitable organization - a difficult prerequisite, since nearly half the refugees are crippled, mentally ill or otherwise problematic. Most of the 4,000 are at Fort Chaffee, Ark., where, out of boredom and frustration, they have rioted twice...
...Still, Fort Chaffee is scheduled to be emptied of Cubans by August. There is no timetable for getting 1,766 Cubans out of the decrepit Atlanta federal penitentiary. They and 50 compatriots in other U.S. prisons have criminal records ranging from simple theft (473 cases) to murder (121). "We've got some good Cubans here," says Mike Trominski, the Atlanta prison's ranking immigration official. "We have others we never want to hit the streets...