Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Roman candle, moved into Dallas last week and popped an idea that had even Texans agape. He announced that his Manhattan realty firm of Webb & Knapp and a group of well-heeled oilmen are in the process of acquiring 5,000 acres of choice land between Dallas and Fort Worth for $10 million. Their plan: to turn the land into the world's biggest "industrial park," a roaring "prairie boom town" where 100,000 people would work in a $300 million complex of aircraft, electronics, food-processing and packaging plants, with an annual payroll of $500 million. The details...
...Rittenburg, 1955 Crimson track captain, will compete in the Olympic tryouts in Los Angeles on June 29 and 30. Rittenburg, who will run in the hurdles, is currently a private in the army and stationed at Fort Dix, N.J. He will "tune up" in several major indoor meets when off-duty...
Abramson defeated Merom Brachman '58, of Lowell House and Fort Worth, Texas, who was elected vice-president...
...varsity swimming team, which opens its season this Saturday against Cornell at Ithaca, remains undisturbed on hearing that the Big Red swimmers spent the vacation practicing at Fort Lauderdale, Florida. No formal workouts for the team were held in the I.A.B. although a few members practiced on their...
Died. Major General (ret.) Charles Stewart Farnsworth, 93, first Chief of (U.S.) Infantry (1920-25), commander of the U.S. 37th Division in World War I, one of the developers and onetime head (1919-20) of the Infantry School at Fort Benning, Ga.; in Corona, Calif...