Word: forte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scrubland of Florida's panhandle early one morning this month: 2,640 soldiers leaping from 20 huge C-141 jets, along with three more planeloads of Jeeps and other heavy equipment. They came from the XVIII Airborne Corps and the First Brigade of the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, N.C. If war or the threat of war were to come in the Persian Gulf area, these paratroopers likely would be the U.S. spearhead...
Every South Florida schoolchild is taught the story of the founding of Miami, for to Floridians the tale has all the sacred qualities of a modern Aeneid. In 1896 a woman named Julia Tuttle came south to visit the charming village that was then called Fort Dallas. She fell in love with town--here Miamians usually add, "of course"--and wrote to her friend Henry Flagler, owner of the Florida East Coast Railroad, begging him to bring his railroad down so more people could visit the area. Flagler laughed; nobody would want to go that far south, he said. Then...
...electricity reached record heights. In Dallas a woman walked up to a truck loaded with ice and, without a word to the driver, climbed in and lay down on the cargo. Many businessmen gave up wearing suit coats and switched to guayaberas-loose-fitting, Mexican-style shirts. At Fort Chaffee, Ark., trucks carried ice water to the military policemen assigned to the Cuban refugee camps. Even so, a dozen MPs became ill. (None of the Cubans, used to heat, were hospitalized...
...internecine disputes, it was only this year that New York City's Whitney Museum and the Art Institute of Chicago succeeded in assembling and documenting a definitive retrospective of his career. The show, after its opening at the Whitney, is now in Chicago, will move on to Fort Worth and finally to the University Art Museum in Berkeley. The accompanying catalogue by Barbara Haskell-the Whitney curator who organized the exhibition-is in effect the first detailed biography of this complex, tortured...
Chrysler has endured a series of heart-stopping brushes with bankruptcy over the past year, but last week's was the most perilous and protracted. A tiny group of Chrysler's far-flung lenders in such places as North Little Rock, Ark., and Fort Wayne, Ind., threatened to upset the automaker's carefully arranged $1.5 billion federal loan guarantee package and cause the company's financial collapse. Said a top Michigan bank official in the middle of the fray: "For the first time, some of the responsible guys are talking about what they...