Word: fla
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Stanley C. Limanowski Boynton Beach, Fla...
Hundreds of towns have their boostering stunts. Tiny Pittsfield, Me., will hold the Central Maine Egg Festival, with 600 eggs being scrambled simultaneously in one frying pan 10 ft. in diameter. Jacksonville, Fla., just turned out to celebrate the end of pollution in the Saint Johns River, with stunt flyers, hot-air balloons, parachute jumping, the mayor waterskiing, and trucks dumping hundreds of fish into the cleaned-up waterway. In the Texas hill country, the tiny town of Luckenbach (pop. 6), now made famous by Waylon Jennings' country-and-western song about the simple life there, is holding Saturday night...
...Dunedin, Fla...
...Last week brought new indications of how widespread the practice is. Just as the N.Y.S.E. award was being announced, Manhattan-based Bache Halsey Stuart Inc. sued Loeb Rhoades & Co. Inc. for $5 million damages, charging that Loeb Rhoades had pirated 17 salespeople out of its New Orleans and Orlando, Fla., offices. Bache also sued its former managers of those offices for conspiring with Loeb Rhoades to purloin trade secrets, and asked the New York courts to stop the firm from using any customer information that the Bache employees might have taken along with them. Loeb Rhoades strongly denies doing anything...
Died. Dr. Robert Franklin Pitts, 68, physiologist who pioneered research in kidney function and disease; of a heart attack; in Live Oak, Fla. While chairman of Cornell University's physiology department, Pitts conducted studies that led to new medical routines of therapy and an understanding of diuretic drugs...