Word: florida
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...straggled Nevada's Republican Senator George Malone to register a ringing aye. Then came Joe McCarthy (who is usually late for roll calls) and Florida's Democratic Senator George Smathers. Both were for the amendment. The count: 60 to 28−still more than enough for passage. But two other latecomers, Pennsylvania's Republican Senator James Duff and Oklahoma's Democratic Senator Mike Monroney, arrived just in time to vote against the measure. That made it 60-30−precisely two-thirds. Vice President Richard Nixon, presiding, took a long slow look around the chamber...
Hill of the Toad. Flores duly reported his find, but nothing was done until two novice archeologists, Robin Mills and Morgan Smith of Florida, heard about it in Oaxaca City. By airplane, jeep and saddle horse, Mills and Smith worked their way to roadless Rio Grande, where proud villagers showed them the stone. Part of the stone was covered with hieroglyphics, and five square miles of ground around it was full of exciting traces of an ancient civilization...
...plane, train and car, thousands poured into the land of oranges and palms last week as the winter tourist season hit its peak. After a slow start, hotels and motels throughout Florida were filling up. In Miami Beach, guest lists lengthened with the names of Eleanor Roosevelt, Elizabeth Arden, Senator John Bricker. Sixty-four miles north, at Palm Beach, the Winston Guests, the Joseph Kennedys and the Duke of Windsor went off to the Polo Ball at the Boca Raton Club, where polo ponies in special stalls were the guests of honor. At Winter Haven's famed Cypress Gardens...
Grass-rooters who hoped to elect retired Army General James A. Van Fleet, 61, as Florida's Republican governor this fall were withered (though not permanently blighted) by their resolutely unwilling candidate, who bluntly announced: "After many conferences with persons of substance and influence, I have come to the conclusion that I am not presently equipped to enter politics...
Swedish Coach Linden, after watching Browning, went over to Coach Pond and said: "Fabulous! I congratulate you." Then the missionaries from Sweden, who have yet to lose a meet in the U.S., packed up to carry the calisthenic word to points as far south as Florida...