Word: florida
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Annie Moss and her attorney, a Negro lawyer named George E. C. Hayes, did not accept this brushoff without protest. Hayes wrote each member of the subcommittee, noting that the Army has suspended her from her job. The Washington Daily News took up her case. While McCarthy was in Florida two weeks ago, the subcommittee agreed to give her the chance to defend herself...
...year and minimum American plan rate of $50 a day are only the low hurdles. The applicant must also pass the scrutiny of the board of governors: Wenner-Gren, the Hon. Mrs. Audrey Pleydell-Bouverie, Eunice, Lady Oakes, Sir Oswald Bancroft and seven other Mayfair and Florida social arbiters. If he gets by without a blackball, and would like to settle on the island, the new member may then sign up for a homesite-at $10,000 an acre...
...Latin America and the coral shoals of Australia's Great Barrier Reef. Alone, in pairs, or as members of spearfishing clubs (there are close to 100 in the U.S. today), skin divers take goggle-eyed aim at everything with fins. Last year a three-man team of Florida Association champions met a Pacific Coast team for the national championship. The Pacific team won, with 134 Ibs. of fish skewered in four hours...
Horse Racing (Sat. 4:30 p.m., CBS). Florida Derby from Gulfstream Park...
...kinetograph (affectionately known as the "geek") and measures temperatures difference in the water by exploiting changes in the earth's magnetic field in a long wire loop dragged behind the boat. Using the principles of this instrument, the Institute experimented last fall on the current that runs through the Florida straits by hitching up electrodes on either end of the Western Union cable that runs to Havana and measuring the potential between the ends. Calculation with the potential gave the amount of water that flows through the entire straits--about equal to a hundred million bathtubs per second...