Word: fla
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been decreed as "Martin Luther King Day" by Governor Volpe, King showed up more than an hour late for the march's start. Finally the marchers, including Mrs. Malcolm Peabody, mother of former Democratic Governor Endicott Peabody and herself a veteran of last year's St. Augustine, Fla. civil rights demonstrations, stepped off from Roxbury's Carter Playground. By the time they reached Boston Common, they numbered some 18,000. Despite a drenching rain, King spoke for 40 minutes, said: "The vision of a new Boston must extend into the heart of Roxbury and into the mind...
...celebrity jam that turned out to see Rudolf Nureyev on the Royal Ballet's opening night. Then off to Norfolk, Va., for a luncheon speech on Viet Nam. Up to Washington to present awards to Agriculture Department employees whose ideas had saved the Government money. Down to Orlando, Fla., to convoy Astronaut John Young on his triumphal return home. Then on to North Carolina for a Sunday at Civil War historical ceremonies. So the Vice President of the U.S., Hubert Horatio Humphrey, 53, is having trouble keeping busy...
CHIEF WARRANT OFFICER MECKIE I. KEYS, 33, is a greying, 16-year Army veteran from St. Petersburg, Fla., where his wife and five children live. Twelve years ago, as a 1st sergeant in a tank battalion, Keys decided to move from turret to cockpit, enrolled in the Army's aviation school. Today he flies a lumbering Caribou transport out of Vungtau on the South China Sea, 40 miles southeast of Saigon...
...community," together with Friend Mary Harriman (Averell's sister) founded New York's Junior League, nucleus of the highly social volunteer women's service organization that now boasts 89,700 members in the U.S., Canada and Mexico; of a heart ailment; in Boca Grande, Fla...
...accuse G. Keith Funston, 54, president of the New York Stock Exchange, of not living in the computer age. He believes in computers as much as the next man, and in fact was telling a group of Clearwater, Fla., businessmen about the exchange's plans for a new building with all sorts of electronic gizmos. So the stockbroker is on his way out? asked someone. Well, no, grinned Funston. "Not until we find a computer that can make a decision and take a loss...