Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...varsity squad begins practice this Friday in Fort Lucy, Fla. After a week of workouts it will travel to Annapolis, Md., for its first meet of the season with Navy and Penn State...
Construction on the new barracks has already begun at Fort Sill, Okla., Fort Hood, Texas, and Fort Carson, Colo. Three other posts will start on new quarters this year, and 15 more are slated for barracks renewal in 1974. Comments Army Chief of Staff General Creighton Abrams, who undoubtedly has known drabber digs: "It is a splendid design. It is admirably suited to both male and female soldiers and will make their lives better, happier and healthier." Which raises the question of whether co-ed dorms are next for The Modern Volunteer Army...
Barnes also has his eyes on other skies. Allegheny has applied to the CAB for routes to Los Angeles, Dallas-Fort Worth and Atlanta. If he can get routes to Atlanta from Detroit, Cleveland and Cincinnati, Barnes pledges to forgo Allegheny's annual federal subsidy. In return for flying into such small cities as Danville, Ill., and Johnstown, Pa., where traffic does not otherwise support commercial service, Allegheny collected $3,200,000 from the CAB last year...
...assaults and purse snatchings occur with depressing regularity in many-though obviously not all-of the nation's city schools. Declares Los Angeles' Principal Sid Thompson: "For teachers and students alike, the issue unfortunately is no longer learning but survival." His own high school is known as "Fort Crenshaw" because of its steel mesh fence, armed guards and classroom doors that lock from the inside. Not even such Draconian measures have left Crenshaw free of violence. Last month a gang climbed over the fence, tore off a student's jacket and severely beat...
There are, of course, many other deserters and draft dodgers who want to come home now that the war has ended, but they do not dare face the risks. One Green Beret medic who deserted Army training at Fort Bragg, N.C., four years ago was arrested and was being court-martialed when he escaped and made his way to Sweden. Last summer he arrived in Canada with another American expatriate whom he had married in Stockholm. Now he wants to return to the U.S. "I have a feeling for the U.S. and the future," he says...