Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Winner of the race was Bill Sirois, a marine supply dealer from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., whose sleek 21-ft. boat with its "tunnel" hull-an airfoil design that allows the craft to ride free of the chop on a cushion of air-was powered by twin 200 h.p. Mercury engines. He outdistanced Runner-Up Reggie Fountain Jr. by a 12-mile margin to take the $18,000 first prize. In all, Sirois all but flew more than 660 miles at the average rate of 82.5 m.p.h.-nearly 3 m.p.h. faster than the record he set as last year...
Richard A. Dey Jr. '73 of Mather House and Morristown, N.J., Poetry Board Editor: Alice C. van Buren '74 of Dunster House and Princeton, N.J., Prose Board Editor; Brian Bohn '74 of North House and Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Art Editor; Glenn M. Schwetz '73 of Eliot House and Wala Wala, Wash., Dionysus; A. Peter Fabry of Eliot House and Hoboken, N.J., Graduate Editor...
Butting up against the heel of the Appalachian Mountains near Anniston, Ala., Fort McClellan appears to be the most placid of military bases. It is pastorally appointed with sweeping greensward, tall stands of shortleaf pine and pleasing arrangements of whitewashed command buildings fronted by old-fashioned verandas. It is a small post, with slightly more than 5,000 people. But McClellan is unique in that 2,000 of those are WACs; it is the largest WAC base in the world. What is more, 20% of the WACs are black. More than any other single factor, that probably accounts...
...Army, Herbert claimed that the Army had attempted to muzzle and harass him. Citing stress on his wife and daughter, Herbert announced he would voluntarily retire in February after 20 years. At 41, he was on his way out, passing his final months in the Army initialing papers at Fort McPherson near Atlanta. His dead-end job was once shared by Captain Ernest L. Medina...
...League hockey frontrunner. The 25-man line-up includes 24 residents of Ontario, Canada. Once again the Big Red has saved face by positioning wing Eddie Ambis on its fourth line. Ambis, a resident of Kenmore. N.Y. (about a 20-minute drive from the Fort Eric. Ontario. Hockey Rink) has been the only American on the Cornell squad for the past three years. Ambis played high school hockey at Kimball-Union Academy...