Word: fla
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...piecemeal. Nebraska's legislature made Sir Winston a state citizen last week; Tennessee is about to do so this week. The man who once described himself as a living Anglo-American alliance already has scads of transatlantic ties, from honorary citizenship in the city of Jacksonville, Fla., to life membership in the Friendship Veterans Fire Engine Co. of Alexandria, Va. Yet Sir Winston is an honorary citizen (since 1941) of only one country-to wit, Cuba...
...Prime Minister, of a mild anginal attack, on Barbados; Marshall Bridges, 31, star (8-4) relief pitcher for the New York Yankees last year, laid up with a .25-cal. slug from a lady's pistol in his left calf, following a barroom wild pitch, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla...
...Gaulle's intransigence undermined NATO? Could Pierre Salinger walk 50 miles? In their cogitation chambers, capital columnists pondered such weighty problems. All but one of the columnists, that is. He climbed into his car one day last week and headed for spring training in Fort Lauderdale. Fla. He bore the improbable name of Shirley Povich and an even more improbable distinction. He not only writes sports for the Washington Post but is also the most popular and most widely read columnist in Washington...
...shared in its gossipy escapades. Under his real monicker, Igor Cassini, 47, was on kissing terms with the Kennedys; his brother Oly is Jackie's favorite dress designer, and his third wife is the daughter of Oilman Charles B. Wrightsman, the Kennedys' neighbor in Palm Beach, Fla. Such weight did he swing that he was instrumental in having Diplomat Robert D. Murphy sent on a secret White House mission in 1961 to listen to the laments of the Dominican Republic's Dictator Rafael Trujillo, then wilting under U.S. sanctions. Naturally, Igor tagged along...
...huge bronze Atlas in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center, which supports only a skeletal globe because the Rockefellers feared that a solid sphere would darken the nearby window fronts; of cancer; in Easton, Md. Among his other massive works: sculptures ornamenting the Bok "Singing Tower" at Lake Wales, Fla., the U.S. battle monument at Saint-James Manche, France, and the 8½-ton statue of a muscle-bound grain sower that stands atop Nebraska's state capitol...