Word: forte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...American craft still lay in Mariel, capable of carrying an average of 45 refugees each-a potential capacity of 67,500, which is even more than the roughly 50,000 refugees already being processed at such centers at Opa-Locka, Florida's Eglin Air Force Base and Fort Chaffee in Arkansas...
...trip was even more eventful than the voyage across the Atlantic. Said Maxie: "We went from ecstasy to despair at least once a day." After they lifted off from Fort Baker on San Francisco Bay at 12:33 a.m. on May 8, Maxie and Kris threw overboard 1,000 lbs. of sand and water ballast and rose to 23,000 ft. There they had to don cumbersome oxygen masks and heavy parkas, but caught a breeze that sent them northeast...
...Florida is already beginning to overflow. Another huge reception center at Fort Chaffee in Arkansas began accepting refugees at week's end. It was preparing for up to 20,000. The experience will not be new for the Army base; it handled some 50,000 Vietnamese refugees in 1975. In case Fort Chaffee also proves insufficient, New Jersey's Fort Dix is next on the list to handle the arrival of even more Cubans...
Soul-Joy in Body-Fort Health Foods is a small but colorful storefront set amid the continuous wall of dull brick that makes up Beacon Hill's Charles Street. Behind the counter, Marion Lennihan, dressed in a flowing yellow sarong, finishes cutting up enough tofu and egg salad sandwiches for the expected lunchtime rush from nearby Mass General Hospital. Lennihan is a disciple of Sri Chinmoy, an Indian teacher who arrived in the U.S. in 1964 and began attracting followers soon after. Several pictures of the guru hang on the wall, showing Chinmoy playing tennis, jogging, and sitting...
Last week six of the warriors and two of the horses went on view at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art as part of its newest exhibit, "Treasures from the Bronze Age of China," which will later go to Chicago, Fort Worth, Los Angeles and Boston. "Age" is the key word, since the terra cotta figures are obviously not bronze; chronologically, though, they do belong to the period, albeit its very end. The public will be grateful that the dramatic figures were included-even if they were not absolutely needed. For the show has bronzes enough to dazzle...