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...many years had the much-assaulted pharmaceutical industry heard such an unbridled attack as came last week from the head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. About 500 drug-company delegates gathered at Boca Raton, Fla., for the annual convention of the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association could have used some of their own tranquilizers after the FDA's new boss, Dr. James Goddard, got up to speak. He accused the industry's executives of slovenliness, deception and dishonesty-and warned them that they had better straighten up or else face much stricter controls...
...responsibility to the community," together with Friend Mary Harriman (Averell's sister) founded New York's Junior League, nucleus of the highly social volunteer women's service organization that now boasts 89,700 members in the U.S., Canada and Mexico; of a heart ailment; in Boca Grande...
...half to fall. On the main campus, the University of Florida at Gainesville, new and needed buildings sprout almost monthly; the now-rising University of West Florida in panhandle-tip Pensacola may have to draw students from neighboring states to fill its classrooms. Spanking new Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton is the nation's most computerized, automated and flexible institution of higher education; at Florida State University in Tallahassee, a frustrated president is all set to leave...
...Florida Atlantic University, a state school built amidst the grass-grown runways of an old bomber base in Boca Raton, will take juniors, seniors and graduate students to absorb part of the overflow from Florida's spate of new junior colleges. The latest electronic teaching aids-including closed-circuit television in every room and study cubicle, as well as a computer-controlled library and information-processing operation-are part of its Learning Resources Center...
Phantoms v. MIGs. On U.S. radarscopes in Florida, the MIGs had been traced out of Cuba. As soon as they passed the 24th parallel, 50-odd miles north of Havana, two U.S. Marine Phantom interceptors scrambled from Boca Chica Naval Air Station near Key West. The Marines raced toward the MIGs at 1,600 m.p.h., met them near the boat, some 60 miles north of Cuba, within five minutes. They saw the MIGs fire at the stricken vessel, radioed Boca Chica for instructions. Four more Phantoms were dispatched...