Word: florida
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Directed the Florida Supreme Court to reconsider, "in the light of" last week's decision, its refusal to order the admission of four Negroes to the University of Florida...
Handsome young Dennis Wepman moved to Manhattan from his home in Florida in 1951 with plans to write a novel. Inspiration was lacking until a friend, Harlow Fraden, confided that he planned to poison his parents. To Wepman this sounded like fine material for a book. While Fraden tricked his parents into gulping cyanide-spiked champagne last August, Wepman lurked in the corridor, taking notes. They framed the murder as a suicide pact (TIME...
...themselves against violent ups and downs in prices. It is the futures market, in which they can buy and sell commodities for delivery months in advance. Last week dealers in two other products subject to roller-coaster price swings were busy setting up futures markets of their own. In Florida citrus men laid plans for a futures market in booming citrus concentrates, whose prices fluctuate as much as 60% in a season. In Chicago a futures market in scrap iron and steel will open late this summer at the huge Mercantile Exchange, where $1.3 billion worth of farm products...
While the Court, did not specifically rule out segregation in the University of Florida and Louisiana State University, it did ask the lower courts ruling on these two colleges, to reconsider their decisions "in the light of" last Monday's announcement and "conditions that now prevail...
...clothing, usually nothing above the waist. Now tropical people of European culture, clinging to European customs, go clothed as if they were dressing for a chilly British spring. The natural result is lassitude and a lowered cultural level. Dr. Wulsin implies that if modern tropical people, such as his Florida hosts, could learn to go bare as the Balinese, they might support as lively a culture as Professor Huntington's Connecticut...