Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dean P. Blanchette Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Now we know why Rockefeller could never find anything to criticize in Nixon's arrogant abuse of power...
...mini-mobilization. His office released a memo calling the Guard "inept, incompetent and ill-equipped." He feared another Kent State tragedy, even though the Massachusetts guardsmen were not issued firearms. The White House turned down a request from Sargent for federal troops, but later alerted regular Army paratroopers in Fort...
Vacant Lots. The shores of California and southern Florida are stippled with unsold condominium apartments -almost 18,000 in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale area alone. Demand for rental housing is at an alltime high, but construction has virtually ceased. Many cities are packed with vast, vacant building sites like the one cleared two years ago in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park for its still-unbuilt 39-story "Twin Oaks" residential complex. Some 900 construction firms went bankrupt from January through July. Many of them were small local outfits, but the failures also include a dozen publicly held firms that...
...embodiment of suburban Catholicism. The cavernous cinder-block building itself resembled a supermarket plunked down amidst an affluent neighborhood by some careless zoning board. The nine-year-old parish's membersinp list, drawn largely from the close-cropped and constantly changing ranks at the Pentagon and nearby Fort Belvoir, had initially been compiled from the local welcome-wagon files...
...icebergs hover silently on the surface of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The supply boat hasn't been able to come this far north since last October. It's now the second week in July and word has come from the next town down the coast that the freighter Fort Mingan--the lifeline connecting these northern coastal villages to southern Quebec--is on its way. So now on "the white side" of St. Augustine, they've begun to prepare for its arrival. Beer bottles crack and shatter on the rocks by the landing. Water-proofed families of 14 pile into...