Word: fla
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennedys are famed for their family solidarity, but Old Joe and Teddy have always been especially close. When their father suffered his stroke last year, all three sons hurried to his bedside in Palm Beach, Fla., but it was Teddy who sat up with him all night for three nights, while the others went home to sleep. When Jack and Bobby expressed their hesitation about Teddy's candidacy, Joe laid down the law. Said he: "You boys have what you want now, and everyone else helped you work to get it. Now it's Ted's turn...
Died. Rollin Henry White. 90. pioneer Ohio automaker who in 1899 developed a flash boiler that propelled White Steamers down the highway just two years after the famed Stanleys, in 1906 helped found White Motor Co., the U.S.'s largest independent truck manufacturer; in Hobe Sound, Fla...
...Petersburg, Fla., was an embattled city last week. At night, trucks drove through the palm-lined streets and the stands of scrub pine and palmetto, spewing a chemical fog onto house-and treetops, all the way to the mangrove swamps lining Florida's Gulf coast. Local citizens were fighting, if not on the beaches, at least in the streets and their own backyards, cleaning out every container in which mosquitoes could find enough water to breed. Bird lovers got a stern official warning: stop feeding the birds or putting out water for them...
...Surf, a onetime adult nightclub just outside Boston, decided to pitch for the Coke-swigging crowd, now attracts upward of 1,000 teenagers, who pay about $1 a head to gyrate to the emoting of Fabian, Frankie Avalon or Bobby Darin. In Cape Coral, Fla., a $50,000 clubhouse is being readied for the autumn opening of the nation's first teen-age key club. Only key-carrying teen-agers (19 is the absolute age limit) will be admitted, and violators of the club's code-no smoking, no drinking, lots of pingpong and billiards-will have...
...Other U.S. cities and towns with cultural gleams in their eyes; Winter Park, Fla., planning a $2,000,000 theater, museum and concert hall; Oklahoma City, a combined arts and science museum; Baltimore and St. Petersburg, Fla., new concert halls as part of their civic centers; Salt Lake City, Asheville, N.C., and Ypsilanti, Mich., theaters at a total cost of $2,150,000; Laramie, Wyo., Hartford, Conn., Saratoga Springs, N.Y., Odessa, Texas, Gadsden, Ala., and Tenafly, N.J., have art centers and cultural projects planned or promised...