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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Cuba's ousted Dictator Fulgencio Batista, supposedly foresightedly, put up $82,500 in 1957 for a large pink stucco hacienda in Daytona Beach, Fla., many of the locals began speculating about what sort of effect he might have, as a neighbor, upon real estate values. After Batista fled Cuba on New Year's Day, 1959, he wound up in the Madeira Islands, where most of his household has since joined him. Batista has apparently given up hopes of taking up exile in the U.S. soon. Said his secretary: "You can be sure he's trying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 20, 1960 | 6/20/1960 | See Source »

...commercial for the Frank Sinatra Timex Show was taped at Marine Studios, Marineland, Fla. and not Miami Beach as stated in your magazine. Our porpoises are educated and well-behaved and, furthermore, not at all greasy. ANDRÉ COWAN St. Augustine, Fla. Trainer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 13, 1960 | 6/13/1960 | See Source »

...winking control console sat Lieut. Colonel Charles Glenn Mathison, commander of the 6,$4Qth Test Wing (Satellite), listening through earphones to the crackle of reports from a vast communications network. Mathison made a final check with radar tracking stations scattered around the earth. All were ready. From Cape Canaveral, Fla. came the word: "RF system ready." At T minus 10 seconds, "Moose" Mathison gave Canaveral the go-ahead: "Ready to launch." Canaveral's countdown neared its end: ". . . eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one-main stage ignited." Mathison hunched forward,. almost as though he were riding with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Space Surge | 6/6/1960 | See Source »

...Petersburg, Fla...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 30, 1960 | 5/30/1960 | See Source »

Cannonball got his name not from his propulsive style but from his gigantic appetite: a friend who saw him wolfing down steak nicknamed him "Cannibal," which in slurring repetition gradually came out "Cannonball." Born in Tallahassee, Fla. 31 years ago, Cannonball played trumpet in high school, switched to sax in college, spent several years as music director at Fort Lauderdale's Negro high school before forming his own group. He was "hung up on technique," Cannonball recalls, and his style was far more frenetic. Then he spent a couple of years with Miles Davis, from whom he learned "control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Cannonball | 5/30/1960 | See Source »

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