Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what basic training is like in the new, all-volunteer U.S. Army, TIME Correspondent James Bell last week visited Fort Jackson in the piney woods of South Carolina. Bell brought plenty of credentials and plenty of perspective to the job. He had taken basic training during World War II and later reported on how the system of making soldiers out of civilians operated during the Korean War. Old Soldier Bell's report...
...Harvard Classics will play two home games within the next week. The Classics play Newton Junior College in a game scheduled for 3:30 Saturday. Then the Classics will entertain a Fort Devens team in a prelude to the Varsity game on Tuesday at 6:00. Both games...
...absorbed into a larger bank-holding company, but Sarakbi already holds enough tendered shares to block that deal when it comes to a stockholders' vote. So Community National officials are now seeking a permanent court injunction barring Sarakbi from buying any shares tendered. Bankers on Detroit's Fort Street, all too conscious of their own vulnerability, are fearful that the Arab might come up the winner...
...bars on Bomber Road outside the sprawling General Dynamics plant in Fort Worth began filling up as soon as the word came down from Washington, and there was plenty to celebrate. After a three-year commercial and political dogfight with a rival design built by the Northrop Corp. of Los Angeles, the company's single-engine YF-16 had finally won a bruising Air Force competition for a new generation of lightweight fighter-interceptors. The new machine is supposed to help the planners fight rising costs in military budgets, but that will not prevent it from yielding a bonanza...
More Agile. The Air Force purchase alone could create up to 60,000 new jobs in the U.S. aerospace industry, where total employment has been static at about 968,000 for the past three years. Nearly 30% of the Air Force spending on the YF-16 would flow to Fort Worth; another large slice would go to the plants in Connecticut and Florida where Pratt & Whitney will build the YF-16s' $1.5 million jet engines. General Dynamics last year overtook Lockheed as the U.S.'s largest defense contractor (total 1974 sales: about $2 billion), but the order comes...