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Some of the measures were hardly of earth-shattering importance. In Dade County, Fla., a ban on throwaway bottles and cans, favored by environmentalists, was rejected by the voters, while in nearby Cocoa Beach topless bathing was outlawed. South Carolinians regularized the hours of the state's liquor stores, Arkansans spurned an attempt by bankers and businessmen to give the state legislature control over interest rates, and, in the year's biggest victory for Fundamentalism, the citizens of Rush Springs, Okla. (pop. 1,381), decided to outlaw dancing in public. Other proposals and the voters' decisions were...
...neighborhoods separated not by miles but by centuries. In the distance one walks to get from the McDonald's in Central Square to the Brigham's in Harvard Square, a Bolivian could walk from the luxury hotels of downtown LaPaz to the adobe huts of Aymara Indians who chew cocoa leaves and eat dried potatoes like their ancestors did hundreds of years ago. Ill-clad Indian children sell two joints of marijuana for ten cents behind the 35-story Hilton Hotel in downtown Bogota, Columbia, and recently-arrived mothers from the mountains beg in the shopping district of Lima, Peru...
...himself, a financier and economist who wrote the book while a resident in the Basel prison. The Swiss government insisted that he remain its guest for ten months after the American-owned Swiss bank that Erdman managed failed. Several of the bank's officials went too long in cocoa and silver futures and tried to cover their mistake by fudging the books...
...black bike to cities around the state. I never asked him about them, but during the course of my visit he would talk every now and then about night trips at 100 mph in his T-shirt in the rain to places like Jacksonville and Tampa and Cocoa. One time he said he was stopped by a state trooper on the interstate. "I didn't think he could see me in the rain," said Kenny, "but I couldn't outrun him so I pulled over. I had been runnin without lights, but he was sitting by a bridge and heard...
...declining momentum shows strikingly in Florida's Cocoa Beach, the town that space built. Five years ago, eager tipplers stood four deep at the bar in spots like Ramon's and The Surf during the Friday afternoon happy hours. The drink of the day was a vicious concoction called a "moonshot" (two-thirds 151-proof dark rum and one-third vodka mixed with cream). Now the drinking ranks are older and sparser, and it is difficult to find a bartender who remembers how to mix a moonshot...