Word: florida
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Martha Rountree beckons, big people in Washington come arunning. As mistress of ceremonies of the television show Meet the Press, Florida-born, belle-like Martha controls a precious segment of Sunday evening air for which politicians yearn as the hart panteth after the water-brooks. Last week Martha had a party, the gaudiest since Marie Antoinette opened at the Trianon, or at least since the night when a foreign ingredient got into Mrs. Murphy's chowder...
Noyes is currently busy building a modern $600,000 school in Connecticut and designing typewriters and time clocks for I.B.M., but the new bubble house is what excites him most. He sees a dozen uses for it: summer cottages, motels, gas stations, roadside shops, garages, big housing developments. Florida's Kobe Sound Corp. will build a pair of Noyes-style bubbles to show tourists this fall. Noyes is also working on a $60,000 luxury model-a cluster of three bubbles, 45 ft. in diameter, with immense windows and five bedrooms. He admits it will take time...
...That Bad?" Fully 1,000 doctors packed the hall when Fort Lauderdale's Dr. Richard A. Mills (after praising the Florida climate as a palliative for heart sufferers) lambasted doctors themselves for giving a lot of their patients a needless heart flutter. Sometimes, he said, the patient misunderstands when the doctor says "Your heart is slow," "Your blood pressure is low," or "Your heart is small." If the doctor does not take the trouble to make it clear that this is good news, it may convince the patient that he is seriously...
...Florida's William H. Johnston is a broad-beamed, red-faced gambling tycoon who likes to play Santa Claus for a children's hospital, act like a civic leader in Jacksonville, and throw his weight around in the state government. In 1948, with two other moneybags, Johnston tossed $450,000 into the campaign kitty of fun-loving Politician Fuller Warren. At first, this seemed a good bet: Warren was elected governor over a Fort Pierce citrus grower named Dan McCarty...
...long-term basis, the picture was different. When the Kefauver committee finished nosing around Florida in 1950, it concluded: After making a huge contribution to Warren's campaign, "Johnston and his tracks seem to enjoy immunity from state-level inquiry." Last year, using the Kefauver ammunition, Dan McCarty got elected governor. He wasted no time in framing a proposal that would hurt: an increase in the state's take at dog-racing tracks from 5% to an average of 7.07%, at the expense of the track, not the bettor. Although Johnston's lobbyists almost got the bill...