Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...commanding general of Fort Ord, Calif., was surprised to receive this letter, written last month by 43 members of A Company, 1st Battalion, 3rd Brigade. First, recruits do not often write letters to the commanding general. Second, when they do write, they rarely praise drill instructors, their traditional scourge. But the most significant fact about the letter is that it was composed by white men-all but two of them from Texas-in praise of their drill instructor, Staff Sergeant Joshua Ashley, a Negro. No presidential report could better document the dramatic gains in status and esteem that the Negro...
...Fort Wayne, Ind., is a base for 19 important industries, but the visiting businessman who attempts to reach them by air often has a hard time-because Fort Wayne, in spite of its population of 162,000, does not generate sufficient air traffic to maintain a busy commercial schedule. TWA two years ago dropped it as a scheduled stop; United and Delta still serve the city, but outbound travelers have to scramble for seats on planes already filled before they reach the city's Baer Field. The result is that Fort Wayne, in an age when most businessmen...
...Chicago. This week a Fort Wayne businessman will attempt to help the hurt. Onetime Test Pilot George H. Bailey will start flying HUB Airlines, into which he is pouring $750,000. Using three Beech Queen Airliners, HUB will provide four round trips daily between Fort Wayne and Meigs Airport in downtown Chicago. Next month the service will be expanded to Cincinnati, and eventually HUB expects to be flying between Fort Wayne and Indianapolis, Detroit and Cleveland as well. HUB and a company called Altair Airlines, which begins Philadelphia-Albany service this week with interplant General Electric executives as its primary...
...skeptics argue that, in effect, all U.S. Congressmen and state legislators are already ombudsmen. Not so, says Gellhorn. To be sure, Congress receives 100,000 letters a day, a vast percentage of them constituents' requests for anything from Fort Knox gold bricks to intercession with regulatory agencies. Unfortunately, says Gellhorn, the episodic results merely assure individual votes rather than broad reforms. Worse, most state legislators cannot even help their constituents. Thirty state legislatures meet only biennially, and newcomers fill half the seats at each session; only eleven states pay legislators more than $5,000 a year, and funds...
With his own franc weakening on world markets, General de Gaulle has suspended his offensive against Fort Knox-for a while. He had been consistently chipping away at U.S. gold reserves by buying bullion with the dollars that France earns from trade and tourism. In October, for the first time since early 1965, the French failed to make their regular monthly conversion of $34 million into gold. Reason for the shift: rising imports of goods and outflows of capital are cutting into France's once hefty balance of payments surplus. The country has few dollars to spare...