Word: daytona
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Several days before Mondale's defeat, Landow and two colleagues on the Democratic candidate's 24-member finance board, Lawyer William Crotty of Daytona Beach, Fla., and Real Estate Developer Thomas Rosenberg of Chicago, discussed keeping the group together. More than fellowship was involved. Michael Berman, the Mondale campaign treasurer, recalls that they wanted more influence on political strategy. For instance, they questioned Mondale's wisdom in promising a tax increase. "This was not a group of flaming liberals," Berman observes...
...aisle-seat wise. There he is, just a businessman flying to Daytona Beach, Fla., straining to keep his deals in place, and next to him is this . . . this gorgeous girl. Long hair, four-alarm wardrobe, sleepy smile that turns surprisingly cordial when he strikes up a conversation. "Spring break, right...
...tragedy too. Among the 800,000 reveling collegians who flocked to Fort Lauderdale, Daytona Beach and Miami this year, seven have died violently. That is more than anyone can remember since 1960, when the movie Where the Boys Are institutionalized Fort Lauderdale's spring...
...revelers were killed in Fort Lauderdale, including an inebriated student who plunged off the 16th floor of the Pier 66 Hotel. Two more died in Daytona Beach after falling from hotel balconies. On Sanibel Island, along the Gulf Coast, a University of Arizona freshman fell to his death from a balcony during a vigorous tobacco-spitting contest. In Miami, a student toppled off a drawbridge...
Thousands of pounds of small pieces of debris found floating on the sea were aboard ships running search patterns over 8,000 square miles, northward from Cape Canaveral to Daytona Beach...