Word: forte
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After two terms as head of the Joint Chiefs, Bradley later joined the Bulova Watch Co. and served as its chairman from 1958 until stepping down in 1973. The old soldier spent his last four years at Fort Bliss in Texas, where he sometimes lectured on leadership. In accepting West Point's highest honor, the Sylvanus Thayer Award, in 1973, Bradley reflected on the low prestige of the military after the Viet Nam War. "The profession of arms is often a lonely profession. It is misunderstood by many. My wife has called me a warrior who hates...
Marjorie Dishron Fort Worth...
Peter Teeley, press secretary to Vice President George Bush, immediately placed a radiotelephone call to his boss, who had just left Fort Worth-Dallas airport aboard Air Force Two after speaking to the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association. He was on his way to Austin to address the Texas legislature. Teeley told Bush that the President was not hurt...
Like other cities, San Antonio faces cutbacks under the Reagan Administration's new budget. The city's economy still benefits from two important sources: Government spending generated, in part, by the large military installations at nearby Lackland Air Force Base and Fort Sam Houston; and federal funds for hiring municipal workers and low-level workers in San Antonio's important tourist industry. Cisneros feels he must wean San Antonio from its dependence on Government money. He also concedes that the costs may end up being borne by the Hispanic working people who helped elect...
...girls in AIAW programs to come back and to pull together as a team." Industry Hills Coach Ed Spencer said, and, with seven returning finalists on the women's team and a group of promising high schoolers coming up from the team that won junior Nationals at Fort Lauderdale last year. Industry Hills looks like a team that may well be pulling itself up in the standings...