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Forecasters warned yesterday that the hurricane would hit the coast somewhere in an area stretching from Pensacola, Fla., to Gulfport, Miss., yesterday night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gulf Hurricane Frederic Threatens Coastal States | 9/13/1979 | See Source »

PENSACOLA, FLA.--Authorities ordered nearly 400,000 people to leave the central Gulf Coast region, an area threatened last night by 140-mile-an-hour winds and 15-footrides of hurricane Frederic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gulf Hurricane Frederic Threatens Coastal States | 9/13/1979 | See Source »

...yesterday afternoon, Frederic was 150 miles south of Pensacola. Forecasters predicted little change in the storm's strength before it reach land. Hurricane warnings were up from Panama City, Fla., to Grad Isle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gulf Hurricane Frederic Threatens Coastal States | 9/13/1979 | See Source »

...will be down," a sign that while millionaire boatowners remain secure weekend sailors are financially vulnerable. Then again, as always in recessionary times, women are continuing to buy cosmetics regardless of cost. At the fancy Georgette Klinger skin care salons in New York, Chicago, Beverly Hills and Bal Harbour, Fla., sales of treatments and assorted preparations have continued to rise at 20% per year. But this year, reports Owner Klinger, people are economizing by "buying larger quantities-two and three quarts of skin care products rather than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Consumers in a Squeeze | 9/3/1979 | See Source »

...might have been an outtake from Creature from the Black Lagoon: a lone figure stumbles from the water covered in yellow guck and with a swollen eye. Except that there were hundreds of spectators on the beach, and they cheered when Diana Nyad came ashore last week in Jupiter, Fla., the first person ever to swim from the Bahamas to the U.S. "I feel like the F train in New York just ran over me, but emotionally I'm exhilarated," exulted Nyad between sips of champagne and whiffs of oxygen. The marathoner attempted the feat three weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 3, 1979 | 9/3/1979 | See Source »

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