Word: fla
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Attorney General Griffin Bell managed to shoehorn an energy pitch into a speech to the National Security Traders Association in Boca Raton, Fla. Speaking at the commissioning of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower in Norfolk, Va., Defense Secretary Harold Brown found a way to deplore the fact that the nation "relies on overseas sources for half the oil we consume." On a swing through Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland and Seattle, HEW Secretary Joseph Califano strayed from his talks on welfare problems to argue that the poor would suffer most if the Senate failed to approve Carter...
DIED. MacKinlay Kantor, 73, prolific writer best known for his Pulitzer-prizewinning novel Andersonville, which depicted the brutalities of a Confederate prisoner-of-war camp; of a heart attack; in Sarasota, Fla. Kantor, great-grandson of a Union Army officer, first became intrigued by the Civil War at the age of ten, when he perused a Civil War encyclopedia. The intrigue became an obsession 20 years later as he launched his 42-book career. A stickler for accuracy, he did prodigious research, visiting and revisiting Gettysburg and Andersonville for his Civil War novels and flying eleven combat missions with...
Sarasota, Fla...
...Episcopal Church, which remained unified while other American denominations were sundered over the slavery issue, is now dividing over women priests. Some of the dissidents are leaving to form a new church; more are staying to fight from within. Last week at a resort in Port Saint Lucie, Fla., 125 members of the church's House of Bishops met and struggled to prevent further damage...
...robot blood-pressure machine -or sphygmomanometer-that has sharply reduced Mrs. Williams' dependence on her physician is one of the latest marvels of medical technology. Introduced in 1976 by Vita-Stat Inc. of Tierra Verde, Fla., and now produced by other firms as well, the coin-operated gadgets have appeared in some 1,300 shopping malls, drug and department stores, factories and hospital lobbies across the country. They are not only cheap and fast -a reading takes a little more than a minute-but impressively accurate. Comparing their results with those obtained by conventional means, Dr. Joseph Chadwick, director...