Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rees described how he had to pay a whopping $5,000 to a former bootlegger to drive him to Santa Cruz. Eventually Rees landed in Fort Worth, where he frequented the topless nightclub circuit and met the lady known in his letter...
...graduate or professional schools or paying off debts from college to give huge grants, they would like a better response from this group than they are presently getting. Part of the problem, Clifton believes, is that they "have an image of Harvard College Fund as a Fort Knox that has lots of money and does nothing with it." He hopes the Council program will show participants how gifts contribute to undergraduate life...
...Citizens Band radio equipment; CB enthusiasts accounted for almost 25% of the chain's $742 million in revenues last year. Experts forecast sales this year of at least ten million of the new CB models, and Radio Shack is set to take home to its parent, Tandy Corp. of Fort Worth, an increasing share of the industry's profits. With its sales of hi-fi and stereo equipment also booming, the chain is expanding at a pace that puts it further and further ahead of its closest rivals. Lafayette Radio Electronics, for instance, was once bigger than Radio Shack...
...report continued, should be placed on "high quality" education rather than on military training. The superintendent should be chosen for his educational as well as his military skills and should serve at least five years. Said Borman after the report was issued: "We should try to prevent a Fort Benning-on-the-Hudson attitude from creeping into the academy-which it already...
Sporting goods stores and pro shops, long the subdued redoubt of the Wilson Jack Kramer Autograph and the Dunlop Maxply Fort, now offer such large and varied arrays of racquets that the average player is bound to be confused. Which of the gleaming new products will convert a peashooter serve into a Roscoe Tanner cannonball? Will the weekend buff find Chris Evert's steady groundstrokes in a $69 graphite frame by Yamaha, or is the operator so poor that the tool required is a $200 (unstrung) Aldila Cannon? The questions are important because the racquet is "an extension...