Word: fla
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hard to Turn Back. Events that Castro himself set in motion were moving too fast for any sudden slowdown. At Cape Canaveral, Fla. a U.S. range safety officer made a lightning decision, pressed the destruction button on a malfunctioning satellite rocket, and fragments weighing up to 40 Ibs. showered down within ten miles of Holguin (pop. 70,000). In normal times the incident would be covered by an embarrassed apology; in the anti-U.S. atmosphere of Cuba the effect was hopelessly inflammatory. Revolution, Castro's mouthpiece, exploded at a "new Yankee provocation." Nor was the U.S. very conciliatory...
...most prominent voices in the financial world declared that the 15-year-old reserve requirement, long considered the soul of economic orthodoxy, has outlived its usefulness. Said Henry Clay Alexander, chairman of the Morgan Guaranty Trust Co., addressing the annual meeting of the Investment Bankers Association in Hollywood Fla.: "Repeal of the 25% gold-backing provision would be a logical step in the further improvement of our international monetary framework." Alexander's proposal came when the flight of gold from the U.S., caused by a worsening balance of U.S. payments, was approaching a crisis. The Treasury Department announced last...
When he started on the nine-month filming project that took him from Belle Glade, Fla. to Chenango County, N.Y., Lowe found that "at first, the workers were embarrassed. Then one man spoke up: 'Are you with us or against us?' I said, 'I'm with you,' and they let us take their pictures." The pictures he got included that of an unbowed 29-year-old Negro woman, a migrant laborer since she was eight, now the mother of 14 children but still working for $1 per ten-hour day. She was one of several...
NELSON POYNTER EDITOR-PRESIDENT ST. PETERSBURG TIMES ST. PETERSBURG, FLA...
LOYAL PHILLIPS St. Petersburg Independent St. Petersburg, Fla...