Word: fla
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This is the man I would vote for as President," boomed Toastmaster Roger Main, a banker and Democrat, at a banquet in Jacksonville, Fla. "But since he is not a candidate, I intend to vote for his candidate." Up rose the audience to give a standing ovation to the toastmaster's hero, Republican Senator Barry Morris Goldwater of Arizona.* In mostly Democratic Jacksonville, many Democrats were among the 500 who had paid $25 each into the Republican campaign fund to hear Goldwater tell them to vote for Dick Nixon. In dozens of other cities and hamlets from South Carolina...
...billion, run six seminaries, 51 colleges and universities, twelve academies and Bible schools. Most of the schools are conservative, but most also offer increasingly broad training, e.g., the theological seminaries at Mill Valley (Calif.), Kansas City (Mo.), Wake Forest (N.C.) and Louisville, the universities of Baylor (Texas), Stetson (Fla.) and Wake Forest College (N.C.). The Southern Baptists operate 113 student centers, 40 hospitals, 14 old people's homes and a nationwide news service. They publish 28 weeklies with a total circulation of 1,400,000, scores of monthlies and quarterlies...
Shalimar, Fla...
...Petersburg, Fla...
...another in Atlantic City and two more (the McAlpin and Belmont Plaza) in Manhattan. By refurbishing each, cutting costs, adding attractive facilities and raising room rates, they made all prosper. In 1956 they decided to build their first hotel. The result was the $17 million Americana in Bal Harbour, Fla.-which was so flamboyantly luxurious, even by the standards of nearby Miami Beach, that it easily won the title of Miami's "hotel of the year...