Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week, after 19 years, the U.S. showed how far it has developed the ability to rush crack troops to the scene of a crisis. Giant four-jet C-141 StarLifters flew some 700 men of the 82nd Airborne Division-part of a larger airlifted force-8,500 miles from Fort Bragg, N.C., with two refueling stops, to parachute-drop zones near Seoul in 55 hours. But for heavy snowstorms in South Korea, which forced a 24-hour postponement of the parachute jump, the operation would have taken barely more than...
...plot is the sort of thing that gives science fiction a bad name. A writer (Michel Piccoli) and his mute wife (Catherine Deneuve) live in an abandoned fort on the coast of Brittany. She is pregnant; he is trying to write. Gradually, he conceives a weird fantasy about a mad engineer who plants control devices on the populace to destroy their free will. Reality begins to blur as the mad engineer invites the writer to sit down at an enormous electronic chessboard on which the townspeople are the pieces and the prize is the wife's fate. Writer...
...Liberties Union attorney who defended Sood. "Fifteen years for going out and singing and raising his fingers in a 'V is absurd." Sood, a draftee who had gone AWOL last September because he heard that his wife was neglecting their children back home, was due for discharge at Fort Lewis, Wash., the week he was arrested...
...sold out on newsstands across the country. How did Esquire do it? In a manner worthy of a tight-lipped Hughes aide, Editor Harold Hayes huffed, "I think I must elect not to discuss it at all." No wonder. The man and woman are models. The photos, shot in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., are to draw attention to a story on Hughes by a reporter who spent two months on the assignment and-like all other reporters-got not a single glimpse...
...tiny, all-white West Point, Iowa. It was the only job offered to him after he graduated from St. Joseph's College in his home state of Indiana. A bachelor when he arrived in West Point, Dulin soon married, had three children and moved down the road to Fort Madison, a town with 300 blacks. There he quickly became president of the local chapter of the NAACP. The folks in West Point still remember the day when Daddy Dulin ruined their annual pre-rodeo breakfast in protest against the appearance of "Aunt Jemima" as a so-called celebrity. After...