Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...season-a trade that runs in the family. His father, grandfather, two brothers and five uncles are all carpenters. When he was 20, he struck out 36 batters in two semi-pro games on successive Sundays, was promptly signed by the Philadelphia Phillies. The Pirates later drafted him from Fort Worth...
...America Pageant (CBS, 11:15 p.m.-12:15 a.m.). Legs, legs and more legs, plus home economics, in a live broadcast of the finals in Fort Lauderdale...
Meeting the press in Washington after her return from space, Monkey Able seemed chipper, jumping around and throwing things almost as if she were fresh from a peaceful monkey house. But after her moment of glory, she was flown off to Fort Knox, Ky., where Army Dr. Thomas Davis noticed that one of the electrodes inserted under her skin, a ¾-inch-square bit of silver-plated wire mesh, had started a slight infection. It was decided to operate, using a general anesthetic, trichloroethylene...
...frantic search began for native-born monkeys. Nobody had kept close tabs on individual birthplaces. At last, Army agents found in Madison, Wis. four rhesus monkeys guaranteed (well, almost guaranteed) to have been born in the Independence (Kans.) zoo. While being flown to Fort Knox, they escaped in a way-station airport and were at large for some time. When they finally arrived at Cape Canaveral on May 14, they were put into intensive training courses. But the two weeks before blastoff were not enough. Result: the button-pressing experiment had to be abandoned simply because Able did not have...
Open Hearing (ABC, 3-3:30 p.m.). The first of two live broadcasts of war games at Fort Bragg, N.C., including a massive air drop of heavy equipment and paratroops of the 82nd Airborne Division...