Word: fla
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rain turned white? Startled millionaires wintering in their baronial mansions in West Palm Beach, Fla., peered closer last week at the miracle that was falling from the skies and discovered-could it be?-yes, the substance was snow, the first ever reported there. Since mid-November, pedestrians in Dallas, unaccustomed to such hazards, have been slipping on sleet-slicked sidewalks. Meanwhile, a series of blizzards has smothered Buffalo this winter with an astonishing 126.6 in. of snow...
...water pipes burst in Little Rock, Ark., one resident remarked, "My basement is flooded and my furnace doesn't work -but we're going to have an ice-skating party in my basement tonight." In Fort Walton Beach, Fla., Circuit Court Judge Clyde...
...promoting fights involving Ali, Foreman and Frazier. Last week Captain Frank Rush, commander of the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Lexington, and Don King, the flamboyant boxing promoter, got their acts together. They jointly presided over one of the odder events in boxing annals: six professional bouts, all fought off Pensacola, Fla., in a ring planted squarely on the Lexington's 910-ft. flight deck...
...barrier, consumers are eying all kinds of exotic substitutes. Celestial Seasonings in Boulder, Colo., offers two: Roastaroma Mocha Spice, made of roasted barley, malt, chicory, dandelion root, carob and spices; and Morning Thunder, a concoction of black tea and a South American herb called yerba mate. An Orlando, Fla., businessman, George Sarantakos, is getting ready to market Bravo, an herbal mix that can be drunk alone or used to stretch out real coffee. It tastes like supermarket instant and, says Sarantakos, is made partly from "weeds we can pick up anywhere...
Died. William D. Pawley, 80, financier, philanthropist and a former ambassador and special envoy to several Latin American countries; of self-inflicted gunshot wounds; in Sunset Island, Fla. Pawley disclosed in the 1960s that President Eisenhower had sent him to Cuba in the final weeks of the Batista regime in an effort to persuade the dictator to abdicate in favor of a caretaker government. Batista refused, and Fidel Castro took control of the country...