Word: fla
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DONALD D. SHOOK Tampa, Fla...
ROBERT C. LINDEN Pensacola Beach, Fla...
...Kennedy was off by almost a century. St. Augustine, Fla., was founded in 1565, as against Boston's birth date of 1630. History Buff Kennedy pulled at least two other historical gaffes. Speaking of Chancellor Adenauer, he said: "Two years after his birth [in 1876], General Custer and 500 of his cavalry were to be wiped out by Sitting Bull and the Sioux Indians." Custer actually made his last stand in 1876. Later, addressing the Irish Parliament, Kennedy presented the Irish Republic with a Civil War battle flag of the Irish Brigade. The brigade, said he, fought at Fredericksburg...
...embezzling $13 million); and Lee Brook, 20, a onetime car-park attendant; after an elopement that touched off a nationwide hunt, which ended when Brook called his brother from their hideout, a nearby motel, to announce: "I love her and I've got her"; in Key West, Fla...
Ybor City is old Cubatown in Tampa, Fla., where Cuban cigarmakers and their families have lived for generations. In this first novel, Florida-born Jose Yglesias, 43, paints a low-key Street Scene that is more fit for play-acting than reading, but his descriptions of Cuban-American family life in 1958 contain much that is touching...