Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When several hundred soldiers were stricken with influenza at Fort Dix, N.J., in February, doctors at first were not greatly alarmed. The recruits appeared to be suffering only from the A/Victoria influenza virus, a strain that caused last winter's relatively mild flu epidemic. But tests showed that at least a dozen of the soldiers-including an 18-year-old who died of flu-related pneumonia-had been infected with a new and more worrisome viral strain. Medical experts are concerned that the virus, usually seen only in swine, may be similar to the lethal virus that probably caused...
...Martin, M.D. Fort Worth...
Answered Prayer. In the final week of the trial, Bailey tried desperately-almost savagely-to damage the credibility of one of Browning's most important witnesses: Dr. Joel Fort, a San Francisco physician with psychiatric training, who maintained that Patty had been a willing member of the bank-robbing crew. Indeed, Fort had called the defendant the "queen" of the terrorists. Bailey put on the stand Dr. James Stubblebine, a San Francisco psychiatrist, who testified that Fort had a reputation for being "untrustworthy and not to be believed...
...racist" and said that "my parents were the last people in the world I would go to to talk about anything." Yet Mrs. Hearst described Patty as "a very warm and loving girl," adding, "we always did things as a family." Bailey asked if the alienated girl described by Fort and Kozol had any resemblance to Patty before her kidnaping. "None whatsoever," Catherine Hearst assured the jury...
Bailey admitted that some of the evidence was inconclusive: "It's riddled with doubt and always will be ... No one is ever going to be sure." He praised his team of distinguished psychiatrists for giving sensible explanations of Patty's conduct. By calling Kozol and Fort, said Bailey, the Government hoped to cause such confusion over the psychiatric testimony "that you'd fold the whole ball of wax and say, 'Well, they disagreed with each other,' and leave it there." Bailey singled out Fort for excoriation, calling him "a psychopath and a habitual liar...