Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...came back just as Chuck began talking about doubts about going into the Army. He was afraid that the people at the Reception Station at Fort Dix would find out he was a user. He turned his arms up to show the black and blue marks around the veins. Tom didn't want to hear...
David interrupted then and wanted to know what happened after they got to New York. Tom explained that there was an hour between trains; they would eat dinner and continue on another train for Trenton, then take the bus to Fort Dix. Trenton, New York? David' wanted to know; Trenton, New Jersey, Tom said. Chuck said that he was thinking about going to Fort Dix now, maybe he wouldn't go AWOL after all. Everyone said they thought that would be a good idea; David especially thought so and told Chuck about it. "Knows everything, that fucking kid," Tom said...
...very well; they had these charts where numbers were hidden in a field of different colors and if you couldn't tell colors apart you couldn't find the numbers, did I understand? I said I did and then Chuck interrupted and said he definitely wasn't going to Fort Dix and asked if I wanted to buy his suitcase and all his clothes for ten dollars so he could get back to Providence because he had spent all his money on beer. Nobody wanted the suitcase. Tom said that he was tired of listening to Chuck's shit...
...abruptly ended the 35-month confinement of Army Lieut. William L. Calley Jr. last week, the judge observed that he saw "no likelihood" that Calley would flee. Why should he? Under the terms of his sentence, he was comfortably confined to his $111-a-month, two-bedroom apartment at Fort Benning, Ga., where he passed the months watching television, building model airplanes, boning up on oceanography and ancient history through correspondence courses, growing vegetables and flowers in his backyard, and talking with his pet mynah bird. Calley, 30, has also enjoyed almost daily visits from his girl friend, Anne Moore...
...Died. Joseph F. Reilly, 67, who in 32 years with the American Stock Exchange (formerly the New York Curb Market) rose from page boy in 1927 to chairman of the board of governors (1960-62); of cancer; in Fort Myers...