Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mexican authorities tell the tale quite differently. The nun story, they claim, is a fabrication to cover for Simmons' brother Carroll, a fireman in Fort Worth. On the day of the escape, as often before, Carroll arrived in his car to visit. Because it was raining, he was allowed to park inside the prison. Screened from view, Dykes climbed into a secret compartment under the car's back seat and Carroll coolly drove out the gates...
According to a recent estimate, 21% of skilled blue-collar workers and 16% of professional employees are on payrolls that rely on military spending. Entire communities depend almost totally on a military installation, defense plants, or both. Junction City, Kans. (pop. 20,500), lives off Fort Riley. The post pumps $143 million into the state's economy, most of it in the Junction City area. When an Army division left in 1965, business plummeted...
...supply goods and services to the construction industry regard real estate as a logical diversification. U.S. Plywood-Champion Papers runs 35 residential developments in eight states. National Gypsum last month agreed to acquire Florida's Behring Properties Inc., which is building thousands of homes near St. Petersburg and Fort Lauderdale. From its original base in timber, Boise Cascade expanded into both land development and construction by picking up five companies in three years. Now the Idaho-based company aims to become a truly nationwide builder of homes, so far an almost unheard of goal in the highly localized housing...
...school? Well, go!" Too old at 20 for Annapolis, his first choice, Ike qualified for West Point, where he reported in June 1911. Never an intellectual, he distinguished himself more as an athlete than as a scholar, graduating 61st in a class of 164. At his first post, Texas' Fort Sam Houston, Second Lieut. Eisenhower met Mamie Doud, a vivacious belle from Denver. They were married...
...whores do," said a veteran nightclub owner, Maurice Cohen. "They'll move upstairs and downstairs with you." To prevent such an occurrence, civic leaders have given thought to transplanting the entire Block onto a showboat, or a nearby pier, or, possibly, onto a rat-infested island known as Fort Carroll...