Word: flor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DONA FLOR AND HER TWO HUSBANDS by Jorge Amado. 553 pages. Knopf...
...food. Chicken in coconut milk-vatapá-then a white night under the stars. These constitute life in the Brazilian state of Bahia, according to its most celebrated writer, Jorge Amado. They are also the fixed points in the remarkable history of his latest heroine, Dona Flor...
...Miami Herald is not only Flor ida's largest newspaper (circ. 369,000) but a most outspoken crusader against crime and corruption. Three years ago, its chronic complaints about law en forcement in the Miami area were directed at Dade County State Attorney Richard Gerstein, the powerful and popular (if unsuccessful) prosecutor of Candy Mossier, ex-president of the Na tional District Attorneys' Association and much-decorated B-17 navigator. The Herald often wondered aloud why Ger stein kept turning up at race tracks, gam bling casinos in the Bahamas, and the Miami area's less savory...
...woman with a loaded, cocked revolver in her hand walked into a Flor ida police station," reported the July issue of the American Rifleman. "To the officer behind the desk, she ex plained that she thought she had heard a prowler but was mistaken. 'Now I can't get it uncocked,' she said. The officer helpfully eased down the hammer without firing...
...children, are proportionately slender now. There are still many more young couples wanting children than there are available infants. But the ratio, once 10 to 1, is now down to 5 to 1 in small towns, 3 to 1 in New York and other Eastern cities. In California and Flor ida, where many unmarried pregnant women go to have their babies-presumably to combine a vacation with a secret confinement-there is a surfeit of available infants...