Word: fla
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...threats: Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. But Dulles needed sympathy less last week, perhaps, than at any time since he turned into Walter Reed Hospital with a recurrence of cancer. Just 840 miles southwest of Washington, he was basking in a hot sun on plush, lush Jupiter Island, Fla., a guest in the vacation home of his good friend Under Secretary of State C. Douglas Dillon. Symbolic items in the Secretary of State's baggage: 1) a flop-brimmed straw hat that "cost about $1.98," and 2) a Brooks Brothers shirt box stuffed with paperback mysteries...
...Development, will be promoted to vice admiral and put in the newly created post of Deputy C.N.O. for Development. "Chick" Hayward ran away from home (Great Neck, L.I.) at 15 to join the Navy, got an Annapolis appointment from President Coolidge, graduated in 1930, learned to fly at Pensacola, Fla., became a test pilot. Deeply interested in atomic physics long before the birth of the atomic bomb, he did graduate work at the University of Pennsylvania in the late 1930s ("I wanted to relax at night in some uplifting endeavor which had absolutely nothing to do with the Navy"). After...
Lakeland, Fla. (pop. 40,500) is like many U.S. cities that have sizable (9,000) Negro populations: white neighborhoods surround the Negro communities, resist attempts of Negroes to find more room for homes. Last week both Negroes and whites in Lakeland were working out a solution to the "white collar" that will give the Negroes new room to grow. Twenty-seven white families, all home owners in the small northside subdivision of Pinehurst Courts, agreed to sell or rent their homes to Negroes...
...Gary Middlecoff, burly dentist playing in his first tournament since undergoing a hernia operation last fall, handily won the St. Petersburg (Fla.) open with a 72-hole total of 275, three strokes better than Runner-Up Pete Cooper...
...tortuous, intermittently rain-slick racecourse at Sebring, Fla., the sleek Italian Ferrari sports cars had a field day. Factory-team Ferraris finished one-two in the twelve-hour International Grand Prix of Endurance, took five of the first ten places. Winner of the other five top spots: West Germany's small, beetle-like Porsche. Notably out of it: Britain's highly touted Aston Martin and Lister-Jaguar...