Word: fla
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dania, Fla...
...Harbour, Fla...
Zone 13 is the police designation for a jagged area of St. Petersburg, Fla., that has been gerrymandered to include most of the city's Negro districts. No white cop had ever been assigned to Zone 13, and none of the Negroes covering that beat ever patrolled the city's white sections. Charging that the police department was assigning them by race, twelve of St. Petersburg's 14 Negro officers sued the city two years ago under the equal-protection clause of the 14th Amendment...
...Rookie. Brooklyn born, Murphy grew up in Nichols, Fla., starred in football, basketball and especially baseball at Mulberry High School. Several baseball scouts were hot on his trail, but they cooled off after he suffered a severe shoulder separation in a football game. "It nearly murdered me at the time," he says, "but it was the best thing that could have happened. After all, how many baseball players make $70,000 in their rookie season...
...Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has now ruled otherwise. An IRS investigation, said that court, is the kind of hearing Congress had in mind when it provided for fees. The fact that the Robertses were being investigated is irrelevant. Result: the Robertses, who live in Hollywood, Fla., will have to be paid 10? per mile for the 20-mile trip to and from the IRS office in Fort Lauderdale. And they will get $4 a day for every day the hearing lasts. Presumably, the same balm is now available to anyone who is called in for a going-over...