Word: florida
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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About three months ago, after a hernia operation revealed the serious progression of his cancer, Dulles underwent 18 jolting sessions of radiation therapy and one injection of radioactive gold, then set off hopefully for a convalescence under the sun and beside the sea in Florida. But the hope was short-lived. Two weeks later, John Foster Dulles flew back to Washington and checked into Walter Reed hospital for the last time...
Rains measure was $500 million over the Administration's own bill. $800 million more than the amount called for in a substitute bill written by Florida's Democratic Representative A. Sydney Herlong and backed by Republican and conservative Southern Democratic Congressmen...
...seems incredible that any sober adult could scent in this fuzzy cottontale for children the overtones of Karl Marx or even of Martin Luther King. But last week in Florida, Columnist Henry Balch thundered in the Orlando Sentinel (circ. 100,000): "As soon as you pick up the book, you realize these rabbits are integrated. One of the techniques of brainwashing is conditioning minds to accept what the brainwashers want accepted." In Alabama, State Senator E. O. Eddins agreed: "This book should be taken off the shelves and burned." Off it went from the regular shelves of the Alabama Public...
Speaking at all-white Florida State University, Author Philip (Generation of Vipers) Wylie, 57, typically detoured from his academic chore (presenting two Wylie awards to future librarians), wished for a darker Dixie-to-come: "I hope that in a third of a century not only will we be integrated and almost all racism will be a historic fact we read about in old books, but I hope we'll be a lot further along toward all becoming tea-colored...
Thirty-two men went to Florida over spring vacation for a week of intensive practice sponsored by the Friends of Harvard Track. Still, the varsity's first meet was with Army on April 18, and the Cadets, who were being hailed as the best dual meet team in the East, had whipped the Crimson indoors...