Word: boca
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...South American scientist had ever been awarded such honors in the U.S. In Manhattan last week, Argentina's Dr. Bernardo Alberto Houssay was made an honorary fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine. In Boca Raton, Fla., the American Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association gave him its first award for distinguished research. Eminent U.S. scientists acclaimed the shy Argentine "the world's greatest living physiologist...
Said shaggy Dr. Anton J. Carlson, dean of U.S. physiologists, as he presented the research award to Dr. Houssay in Boca Raton: "We regret that a few myopic citizens in our sister Republic of Argentina have tried to black out the Houssay scientific beacon at Buenos Aires. But the Houssay beacon still guides and cheers many workers on the frontiers of biology and medicine in every land...
...From Boca Grande to Naples, a terrible smell hung over Florida's west coast. On the sandy beaches, or tangled in mangrove swamps, lay millions of big & little dead fish, eels, crabs, scallops. Natives and visitors (including Coalmaster John L. Lewis) held their offended noses. So many tourists began hurrying home that the nervous Lee County Chamber of Commerce wired Washington (the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service) for help and advice. Last week Army airplanes were spraying the masses of decomposing fish with DDT to prevent a threatened fly plague...
...Choicest: Miami's razzle-dazzle Roney Plaza and, 40 miles up the Florida coast, the ultra-plush Boca Raton Club. Other Schine properties: Miami's McAllister, Albany's Ten Eyck, Atlantic City's Ritz-Carlton, the Breakwater Court at Kennebunkport, Me., the Northampton Hotel and Wiggins Old Tavern at Northampton, Mass...
...luxury of Florida's lush $19,000,000 Boca Raton Club, two news tycoons held an outwardly amiable reunion last week. The host was big, bluff Kent Cooper, 65, executive director of the Associated Press. His guest, young enough (41) to be his son, was slight, greying, boyish-faced Christopher Chancellor, general manager and rejuvenator of A.P.'s No. 1 world rival, Britain's Reuters...