Word: florida
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Charlie Walsh, 1962 baseball captain, may be breaking into the big time soon. The burly catcher, a Crimson student for three years, will go South this week to participate in the Chicago White Sox rookie camp, in Florida...
...Essentials. Tony tried again in Florida last January, but was again set down for incompetent riding. During the layoff, Tony started working out with a veteran rider who taught Tony a few essentials. Tony soon improved enough to qualify for a license as an apprentice jockey. Back in the saddle, he traveled up & down the Eastern seaboard, and wherever he went he whipped home winners...
Even Eisenhower went along. As Senator Neely pointed out, the General appealed for "liberalized" Senate rules everywhere he went in his campaign "except in Texas, Florida, and South Carolina." In light of this fresh memory, the president elect's insistence that it was none of his business takes on a definite aura of hypocrisy...
...four polite questions in mid-December, had shown them to his Wash ington bureau chief, Pundit Arthur Krock, and then sent them around to the Soviet embassy with a covering letter. Reston had tried this system before with no luck, so he had no qualms about going off to Florida for a Christmas vacation. On Christmas Eve, his office tracked him down in St. Petersburg to relay a message: call the Russian embassy. Reston did, and the Christmas morning Times, in five-column headlines, accompanied by a benign photograph of Stalin, obligingly served up Old Joe's newest call...
Within a few days of the Moore murders, a small army of FBI men invaded Florida to investigate the bombings. A federal grand jury, which included three Negroes, heard 50 witnesses, many of whom were members or former members of the Ku Klux Klan...