Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Court decision, but school districts are not compelled to act this semester, and almost none have. One that did was Fayetteville, Ark., which will integrate twelve Negro high-school students as an economy move. Fayetteville had been bearing the cost of boarding the dozen students 50 miles away at Fort Smith, site of the nearest Negro high school...
...building 42 ft. high but only 29 ft. wide by So ft. long (smaller than a standard Army barracks). To prove that an atomic power plant can be sufficiently tamed to live close to civilization, the Army will build the new model at the Army Engineer School at Fort Belvoir, Va., 18 miles down the Potomac from Washington. Estimated completion date...
...Long regarded as an intruder at regular air bases, the military helicopter is coming into its own at Fort Eustis, Va., where the Army is constructing the world's largest helicopter airport. Built with an eye toward experimentation in loading and maintenance techniques, the $970,000 heliport looks like a superhighway cloverleaf intersection, boasts two 600-ft. asphalt runways (for heavily laden 'copters) and a giant, circular taxiway, surrounded by eight dust-free warmup "pads." In this specialized setting the Army hopes to devise methods for mass operation of cargo and troop-carrying 'copters with something close...
...greatest realists America has produced were men of the late 19th century: Philadelphia's Thomas Eakins and New England's Winslow Homer. The Eakins and Homer opposite are public favorites respectively at the Fort Worth Art Center and the Butler Art Institute (in Youngstown, Ohio). These are not subtle or even vastly skilled pictures, and they hardly relate to European traditions. Eakins' gawky and youths are a far cry figure from the bland, beautiful athletes of classical sculpture and Renaissance figure painting. Homer's schoolboys-like real ones-are more energetic than graceful...
...Consolidated Vultee's huge Fort Worth plant last week, a quiet ceremony hailed the last of a long line of famed warbirds. Out rolled the final production model of Convair's ten-engined B-36 bomber, the postwar workhorse of the U.S. Strategic Air Command. In all, something like 400 had been made...