Word: fla
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tampa, Fla...
...Fleet's reputation for bravery, it was occasionally matched by his reputation for shooting from the lip. Last week, on the eve of his recall by the Kennedy Administration as an Army consultant on guerrilla warfare, Van Fleet arose before a gathering of conservation experts in Lakeland, Fla., earnestly discussed his home state's water resources-and then began diagnosing the ills of the world...
...West Coast Times staff will consist largely of advertising, circulation and distribution personnel. Similarly, the duties of John B. Olson, 41, who was hired away from the St. Petersburg, Fla., Times to take charge in Los Angeles, will be more managerial than editorial. Like the Times's Paris-based international edition (which in a year has scarcely put a dent in the New York Herald Tribune's solidly established European edition, also headquartered in Paris), the Western Times will be written almost entirely in New York. The whole operation will be bossed from New York by Assistant General...
With a scream that was out of this world, a giant rocket last week rose ponderously off its pad at Cape Canaveral, Fla. and, gathering speed, disappeared into the sky. When it splashed into the sea eight minutes later, the Saturn rocket had reached its programed height of 95 miles, scored a remarkable success in its first test flight, given the U.S. a big boost in its race for space against the Soviet Union...
Social workers carry imperfect science to absurd heights. Says A. J. Montanari, who runs a private home for rejected children in Hialeah, Fla.: "To avoid the risk of failure, social workers set up so many standards that most people can't qualify, and we have thousands of children who stay in institutions because no one is allowed to take them." In a famed case last year, New Jersey state welfare workers tried unsuccessfully to take a four-year-old girl from her foster parents so that another couple could adopt her. The official reason: the foster parents were...