Word: dade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stations received hundreds of letters and phone calls objecting to the new influx of immigrants. Said Miami Mayor Robert King High: "No one community can assimilate any great number of people who come here with limitations of speech and no money." Governor Haydon Burns warned of possible "economic chaos." Dade County School Superintendent Joe Hall ordered that all newly arrived Cuban children be excluded from classrooms until the Federal Government provides more funds for their education...
Died. Vincent Claude Giblin, 67, onetime Florida mouthpiece for Al Capone, who later served nine tempestuous years as a suddenly crusading Dade County circuit judge, fighting quickie divorces and getting the residence law changed from 90 days to six months, all the while venting his terrible temper ("I'd like to boot her in the fanny!" "You're a pygmy on stilts!") to such an extent that he was finally forced to retire in 1959; of cancer; in Miami...
...placed so that 95% of all the people in the state are within 25 miles of one. Texas has 45, Pennsylvania 35, Florida 32. More new students enrolled in Illinois' 25 public junior colleges last year than in its public four-year colleges. When Florida's Miami-Dade Junior College opened in 1960, it had 1,300 students; today...
Spelled out in all its grim detail in Joel Gebhardt's confession to the Dade County (Miami) grand jury, the Worthington slaying seemed to promise that the two young men would soon be facing trial on two counts of first-degree murder. Not so: the grand jury has indicted only Richard Worthington-leaving "Witness" Gebhardt to go completely free as soon as his friend's trial is over...
...that, and many new Miamians will be talking about Cleo 14 years hence. It bent palm trees to the ground, crumpled street signs, uprooted shrubs, took gravel right out of roadways. Blowing at 115 m.p.h., Cleo knocked down so many power lines that more than 60,000 telephones in Dade County were without service. At least two dozen fires broke out in Miami, and winds were so high that firemen could not cope with them for hours. At Opa-Locka Airport, a DC-3 was lifted 50 ft. off the ground, flopping helplessly at the end of its ropes...