Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Signal Corps pigeoneers at Fort Monmouth, N.J. got ready to sell their charges to private buyers, they held to one secret hope: one fine day all 1,000 well-trained birds would home into Fort Monmouth and settle daintily all over the electronics boys' fancy antennas...
...Hills. He exemplifies the settlers of America's last frontier, the Mountain West, and the establishment there of the Cattle Kingdom. Lat begins his rise as a Montana rancher by breaking away from his religious, impoverished parents and signing up for a cattle drive from Pendleton through Boise to Fort Benton, Montana. In Montana, he turns his winnings in a horse race (Callie, his prostitute mistress loaning the initial capital) into a profitable ranch. The politically ambitious Lat must, however, renounce his shady past and marries a Hoosier schoolmistress. His past quickly overtakes him, and he is simultaneously faced with...
...Stuffed animals, especially the big ones, are selling better than ever. They range from a Teddy Bear in Borgana fur to a hound dog inspired by Elvis Presley, and Steiff's life-size reindeer ($250). For the military minded, hot sellers are Marx's "Rin-tin-tin Fort Apache" and "Captain Gallant" ($6 apiece) and, among games, Parker Brothers' "Scoop...
...than two-thirds of the 4,000 seats. But the Vice President listened as he talked, looked as he was looked at, and recommended that the G.O.P. make a real Texas try. During the campaign he flew 800 miles across the state, speaking to ever more enthusiastic crowds at Fort Worth, San Antonio and El Paso. On his recommendation, Dwight Eisenhower added Dallas to the presidential schedule. This week, as Nixon had hoped and expected, Texas was a real political battleground, and the Eisenhower-Nixon ticket had a chance to win the battle...
Last week in Fort Benton, the townsfolk were talking about Ken Scott and Viv Squires. Some people wanted to name the high school athletic field in Scott's honor. Others planned to raffle off the bear's head and give the money to his widow...