Word: florida
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Does he intend to file in New Hampshire, where his 1952 win over President Truman gave him perhaps his finest hour? His grinning reply: "I heard somewhere or another that my political associates were already getting their snowshoes out." And Florida? Said Kefauver: "The sunshine is very beautiful in Florida this time of year...
Already committed to enter the Minnesota presidential primary next March 20, Adlai Stevenson last week announced plans to run in at least four more states: Illinois on April 10, Pennsylvania on April 24, Florida on May 29, and California on June 5. Said Stevenson: "These primaries were selected to provide for expressions of preference on a regional basis in the East, Midwest, South and West...
...moon, famed German-born Rocketeer Wernher von Broun, went in the opposite direction, harnessed himself into skindiving apparatus and plunged into a tank at Miami's Seaquarium for a submarine safari. Also an underwater hunter, Spaceman von Braun recently bagged a 50-lb. grouper in the shallows off Florida's west coast...
Long-Ranged Patrick. Some modern missiles are too long-ranged for Holloman, big and remote as it is. To test these fearsome "birds," most of which are highly secret, the Air Force maintains Patrick Air Force Base on the east coast of central Florida. From Cape Canaveral, a scrub-covered island a few miles offshore, a long, highly instrumented range slants southeast across the Bahamas, skirts the Dominican Republic and crosses a corner of Puerto Rico. This distance, more than 1,000 miles, is enough for the present, but the range is being extended to Ascension Island between Brazil...
...Courts in Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia and Virginia have handed down parallel decisions; three other states and the District of Columbia have no fair-trade laws...