Word: florida
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cold in Florida that the mink stoles and silver-fox jackets were not just for show. But while the weather was cold, the betting was hot. Eleven miles as the helicopter flies from Miami's glossy, crowded ocean-front hotels stands spacious Hialeah, overrun by footsore fugitives from crammed Northern tracks. Last week Hialeah presented one of the biggest, CinemaScopiest spectacles to be found on any U.S. race track...
Backdrop for Stars. Hialeah was built by a man who has long served Florida's spiritual needs rather than its sporting habits. Church Architect Lester W. Geisler (he designed the million-dollar First Presbyterian Church on Miami's Brickell Avenue and the 18-acre, cruciform drive-in Pasadena Community Church at St. Petersburg). At Hialeah, a dignified formal park stretches to the $2.5 million clubhouse. Not until he rides in an escalator into a profusion of bars, restaurants and pari-mutuel windows does the visitor get a glimpse of the track itself, which is framed by hedges...
...feel that you may be interested in my own experience off the Florida Keys, although Edmund H. Harvey's, who writes for the CRIMSON, is, perhaps, the more interesting of the two (mine...
States & Regions. In Florida, a special council of educators has issued a preliminary report on how to meet the wave of enrollments. Between 1930 and 1950, said the council, Florida's student population grew faster (561%) than that of any other state, will probably jump another 300% to 106,000 by 1970. The council's tentative recommendations: that the state 1) set up 12 to 16 two-year community colleges, 2) establish at least three new four-year colleges in major population centers, and 3) appoint a chancellor to help guide the three state universities in a long...
Although it may have no direct bearing on Mrs. Garrett's talk, I remember one time I was fishing off the Florida Keys. Things had been slow all day and the Captain was cracking open his second point of Four Roses. Suddenly, what looked like a large island loomed up close behind the boat, and, in a summary fashion, smacked the teaser and then the bait. Momentarily surprised, the Captain set down his bottle and shouted, "Give him plenty of line!" This I did, but the island-like serpent took all my new nylon line and all my backing, despite...