Word: florida
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Barefoot Girl. The story of Candidate Jacqueline Cochran is beyond the rosiest dreams of Horatio Alger. She does not know who her parents were, or where she was born an estimated 47 years ago. Her childhood was spent in a succession of Florida and Georgia cracker shanties, in dreary sawmill towns at the dead ends of Tobacco Road. Her dresses were flour sacks, and she got her first shoes when she was eight. Starvation was always lurking outside the door, and Jackie ate mostly what she could steal or scrounge. She learned to read from the signs on railroad boxcars...
...varsity swimming team, which opens its season this Saturday against Cornell at Ithaca, remains undisturbed on hearing that the Big Red swimmers spent the vacation practicing at Fort Lauderdale, Florida. No formal workouts for the team were held in the I.A.B. although a few members practiced on their...
...half the decrease occurred in the South, largely because sharecropper and tenant farmers left the farm and turned to the rapidly growing opportunities in industry. Most of the fall-off came in small farms-between 10 and 100 acres. 1% The number of farms decreased in every state except Florida, where the new boom in agriculture (TIME, Dec. 19) pushed the number of farms up from...
Thus, only Florida and California hold a chance for an upset-and they, not much. Florida's popular Governor LeRoy Collins leans toward Stevenson, and the state's anti-Collins faction is led by ex-Governor Fuller Warren, a hater of Estes Kefauver from the days of the Kefauver investigating committee. Kefauver has kept up his Miami contacts, and some observers believe he can still carry that city; elsewhere in Florida his star has dimmed. In California, Stevenson has already lined up nearly all Democratic leaders, including most of those who supported Kefauver...
...home, stopping at a Florida motel near Jacksonville, Frank Dow Merrill, 52, suffered his fourth and final heart attack...