Word: fla
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Russian-born teacher and friend of Lee Harvey Oswald's named George de Mohrenschildt. But nothing ever seems sufficient to still Kennedy assassination stories; time and events merely complicate them. Last week-only an hour after a congressional investigator asked to meet with him in Manalapan, Fla. -De Mohrenschildt apparently committed suicide, by putting a 20-gauge shotgun in his mouth and pulling the trigger. Suddenly there was intense interest in what he might have told the investigator. Sure enough, within 48 hours, a world-traveling Dutch TV newsman, Willem Oltmans, showed up to reveal to a closed session...
Died. Betty Anick, 57, the world's longest-surviving heart-transplant patient; of an apparent heart attack; in Nokomis, Fla. Anick received the heart of a 30-year-old man in a four-hour operation in October 1968. Since then, she had devoted much of her time to visiting heart-surgery patients and raising funds for heart research...
Similar growth-limiting measures have been adopted by other communities, including Boca Raton, Fla., and Ramapo, N. Y., as well as a handful of other California towns. The motive may be healthy-to conserve resources, including simple living and breathing space, that are becoming scarcer all the time. In a country where migration remains a major avenue of social change, it still seems disturbing to throw up barriers against growth and, by extension, the freedom of people to move and change their lives. In several cases the courts have tried to defend this freedom while also approving rationally regulated, nondiscriminatory...
...underwater exploration for oil or gas is still more of an art than a science. Only one-third of all wells dug in the gulf are now producing; Exxon, Mobil, Champlin and others have spent more than $1.5 billion exploring off Pensacola, Fla., without discovering anything except salt water. Worse, federal investigators suspect that gulf producers in recent years have been purposely holding back production in hopes that federal price controls will be removed and the gas will eventually sell for $2 or more per 1,000 cu. ft., rather than the present top interstate price...
...Boston Red Sox lost a heartbreaker yesterday afternoon in Vero Beach, Fla., when Reggie Smith of the Los Angeles Dodgers burned his former teammates by smashing a two-run home run in the bottom of the ninth inning...