Word: forte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...customers, including about 45 savings and loan associations. The Securities and Exchange Commission sued Bevill, Bresler for fraud, charging that the firm secretly drained its customers' investments to make up for heavy trading losses. The failure comes in the wake of last month's $317 million collapse of Fort Lauderdale's E.S.M. Government Securities, which provided the spark for Ohio's savings and loan crisis...
...Lonesome End" and captain of Army's 1959 football team, "Napalm Bill" Carpenter won a Distinguished Service Cross for his actions. Carpenter, 47, stayed in the Army; last December he was promoted to major general and put in command of a newly organized light infantry division at Fort Drum...
Convicted of murdering 22 Vietnamese civilians in the 1968 My Lai massacre, Lieut. Calley was released from house arrest in Fort Benning, Ga., in 1974 after serving one-third of a ten-year sentence. Calley, 41, settled in nearby Columbus, Ga., where he is a sales manager in his father-in-law's V.V. Vick jewelry store...
...Ninety percent of truck-stop food isn't worth speaking about," shudders seven-year Veteran Driver Tom Burghardt of Hicksville, N.Y. He estimates he will save $200 a month on motel and food bills with his new $22,500 Double Eagle Windjammer. Dave Kahlig and his wife Mitch of Fort Recovery, Ohio, have yet to install a microwave in their 66- in., $11,000 Double Eagle sleeper. But they have a refrigerator and cook foil-wrapped meats on the truck's engine between the red-hot turbo pipes. "It takes about 10 to 15 miles to cook a hamburger," says...
...trained a video camera on the demonstrators, some of them stared back at him and silently drew their fingers across their throats. Eventually, with riot policemen watching from the turrets of two armed personnel carriers, 14 black prisoners were led out of the building and driven away to the Fort, Johannesburg's historic prison...