Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...while he was in city hall. Cities could also shift from outmoded "line-item" budgets-which simply list how much is to be spent for salaries, how much for construction and so on-to "performance" budgeting that stresses goals and priorities. When they made that switch four years ago, Fort Worth officials decided deliberately to undervalue taxable property, in effect creating a reserve of untaxed value for hard times. Now that the hard times are here, the city has provided for an $8 million increase in its budget to $83 million by shifting to "realistic" property assessments. More such innovation...
Married. Bob Woodward, 31, Washington Post's investigative Watergate reporter; and Frances Barnard, 28, reporter for the Fort Worth Star Telegram; both for the second tune; in Washington, D.C. Woodward's enterprising colleague, Carl Bernstein, who only learned of the secret marriage with an hour to spare, provided boutonnieres niched from a hotel flowerpot. ∎ Died. Cornelius Ryan, 54, bestselling chronicler of World War II (The Longest Day, The Last Battle, A Bridge Too Far); of cancer; in Manhattan. Born in Dublin, Ryan studied the violin at the Irish Academy of Music before becoming a war correspondent...
...home and in Europe have been severely squeezed. Production of the M-60 tank is limited to 40 a month, and since most of the tanks shipped to Israel have been M-60s (along with some older M-48s), American tank units are hard-pressed for vehicles. At Fort Knox, the chief tank training center in the U.S., the few tanks available are rotated from one school to another. The drain on American reserves has caused some grumbling in the Pentagon, where generals complain that the Israelis come in with an endless shopping list and "want more and more, faster...
...foster a sense of national pride and identity, Tombalbaye ordered the 4 million citizens of the former French colony to change their foreign first names. City and street names (with the exception of the capital's main thoroughfare, Avenue Charles de Gaulle) were also Africanized. The capital, Fort-Lamy, was renamed Ndjamena, which means roughly "Leave us alone...
Divorced. Jackie Gleason, 58, TV comic whose role as Bus Driver Ralph Kramden became a classic; and Beverly McKittrick, 42, his former secretary; after four years of marriage-his second -no children; in Fort Lauderdale...