Word: florida
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...debating teams will visit 24 colleges in 11 midwestern and Southern states. In a locally televised debate, one debate team will meet Marquette University. Among the other schools they will meet will be the University of Wisconsin, the University of Florida, the University of Miami, Duke University, and the University of Kentucky...
...exhibit of tropical plants, the President encountered the alligator, a three-footer from Florida. When the attendant said that the grinning reptile would bite, the President backed up. "Well," he said, "he's not going to bite...
When the Senate finally voted, the count was 50-44 against the Johnson plan. The Republicans, with the exception of North Dakota's Maverick Bill Langer, voted in a solid bloc. Three other Southern Democrats (Louisiana's Ellender, Florida's Holland. Virginia's Robertson) joined Byrd and George in voting against. Only two of the Senate's 96 members failed to vote: Massachusetts' Democrat John Kennedy, who is ill, and Maine's Republican Margaret Chase Smith, who was abroad doing legwork for an Edward R. Murrow television show...
...sentimental (and thrifty) competitors actually drove their cars to the race. But the quaint tradition that a sports car is a practical vehicle, designed for everyday use, seemed as antiquated as the Stanley Steamer or the solid-rubber tire. Well-heeled pros who turned up for the Florida International Twelve-Hour Grand Prix of Endurance last week brought their cars by rail or trailer, by plane or ship-any way but under their own power. The 5.2-mile course on Sebring's abandoned airfield was enough to tear the guts out of the finest engine. Mechanics needed every available...
...North Carolina motel keeps its free soft-drink machine available all night, dispenses free hot coffee and doughnuts each morning. The new Georgia and Florida motels have either restaurants or small alcove kitchens (at no extra charge) in their suites. Says the manager of the 96-unit Atlanta Terrace Motel, biggest in the state: "People just won't stop if they have to go elsewhere for food." Others give their guests free morning and evening newspapers, plush communal lounges, playgrounds with shuffleboard, badminton, swings and even horseshoe pits...