Word: crandon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...straight for Florida's southeast coast. Governor Robert Graham ordered the evacuation of low-lying areas, and as many as 300,000 people headed for higher ground, including 15,000 from the Keys alone. Public buses carried senior citizens from Miami Beach to stormproof shelters, while animals at Crandon Park Zoo in Key Biscayne were trucked to safety. There were sudden shortages of candles and flashlights and other household items as thousands of Floridians jammed their local stores. At Saunders Hardware Store in Miami, there were fights in the aisles when hundreds crowded in to grab batteries, tape...
...find that I like cold countries now," said Newscaster Lowell Thomas last week as he celebrated his 79th birthday. "The heat takes it out of you." The heat isn't all that does it. At Miami's Crandon Park Zoo, where he was visiting Mohan, a 1,500-lb. rhinoceros that he had helped to capture, Thomas turned to talk to the keeper while feeding his rhino friend some greens. Mohan munched the greens and went right on munching until he was lunching on Thomas' trousers. "I was lucky," said Lowell. "If he had got hold...