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...column of recruits as big as Fidel's, kept an airstrip open on mountain pastures. By spring of 1958 arms flights became big and frequent-notably from rich Venezuela, which had just thrown off a dictatorship. Cubans in Florida regularly flew planeloads of arms from small airports in Broward County and at Ocala and Lakeland, once made a fire-bomb...
Fringe Benefits. Manufacturing is growing fastest in the Gold Coast tourist spas, where any company can attract employee talent with the free fringe benefits of sun and surf. Dade County (Miami) leads the state with 96 new plants in the first half of 1957; Broward County (Fort Lauderdale) is second with 51 plants. Pinellas County (St. Petersburg) is being transformed from a senior citizens' haven to a humming technical center. Since 1956, General Electric's X-Ray division has established a $7,000,000 plant, and Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Co. has opened a $4,500,000 missile-parts...
Collins' excellent showing in the Statehouse, e.g., record personal income and employment in the state (TIME, Dec. 19), added point to his warning that racist chaos would wreck the boom. He rolled up landslide margins amid the new factories of the boom: 78% in Broward County (Ft. Lauderdale), 72% of the vote in Dade County (Miami), 69% in Pinellas County (St. Petersburg). He is sure to walk away from G.O.P. Nominee William A. Washburne in November...
...Running under top weight of 130 Ibs. and held so snugly by Jockey Willie Shoemaker that he galloped most of the race with his head twisted sideways, Rex Ellsworth's great chestnut colt Swaps breezed home to win the Broward Handicap at Florida's Gulfstream Park by 2lengths, set a world's record (1:39.6) for the one-mile 70-yd. distance...
Charies R. Brynteson 1L will coach a ten man outfit from the freshman American league, while C. Broward Craig 2L will handle the National leaguers...