Word: forte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is just one main road that interrupts the serenity of the Princeton campus. A slow jog along it will take you by the few businesses that service the students--an antiseptic Woolworth's, a cheerfully Tudor P.J.'s Pancake House, one lone movie theater advertising "Fort Apache, The Bronx." Before you know it you are out of the town and into the suburban area where graceful turn-of-the-century mansions are occasionally jurtaposed with modernistic concrete boxes, and where large expanses of land and water are dotted with honking brown geese...
...Dodge City style. The most successful, Fool's Gold and San Antone Rose, are in affluent residential areas and cater to Gucci gauchos. A Houston-based conglomerate, McFaddin-Kendrick, has launched a national chain of 40 western barns that mix country music with disco. In April a Fort Worth entrepreneur plans to open a three-acre C&W supersaloon described as the world's largest nightclub. It will be called Billy Bob's Texas and have 42 bar stations on four levels, two 7,000-sq.-ft. dance floors, and ten live bulls, which only professional rodeo...
DIED. Marguerite Oswald, 73, mother of the presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, who bitterly contested the Warren Commission's conclusion that her son had acted alone in shooting John F. Kennedy in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963; of cancer; in Fort Worth, Texas. A loquacious, self-dramatizing woman, she once proclaimed: "If you research the life of Jesus Christ, you find that you never did hear anything more about the mother of Jesus after he was crucified...
...operation, an empty Amoco filling station half a mile from where he is now located. The total cost of moving there, including new machines and remodeling, would come to about $175,000. But Despos is finding that he cannot afford to borrow the money from his local banker. The Fort Wayne National Bank, where he has been a customer for three years, would have given him a mortgage last October with an interest rate somewhere between 13% and 14%. But the bank insisted on a 30% cash down payment and Despos could not afford it. The $52,500 cash outlay...
Charles Jackson, a Manhattan journalist, swore off after wartime accidents in which he hurtled in a Jeep against the wall of a crowded Army orderly room and later slammed a 2½-ton truck through the imposing Sterling Gate at Fort Sill, Okla. ("There wasn't enough left of it to make matchsticks.") Nowadays he rides splendidly in the back seat of the family Buick, while his wife does the driving...