Word: florida
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...America's educational framework is sound, the body of elementary and high school learning is far from healthy. U.S. schools still send graduates to college grossly unprepared for higher education, and many schools are still run. Hechinger reminds his readers, by such administrators as the Florida school official who said recently, "The training of our youth in sound practices in the operation of motor vehicles is as important as learning to read.'' Hechinger suggests some reforms well worth debating...
...Ladder. Sam Clemens was the most erratic of autobiographers. Just about the only event of his life that he set down in conventional autobiographical manner was the beginning: "I was born the 30th of November, 1835, in the almost invisible village of Florida, Monroe County, Missouri . . . The village contained a hundred people and I increased the population by 1 per cent. It is more than many of the best men in history could have done for a town...
...means of an extra race a day and five additional racing days a season. Texas, its oil producers already hilt-taxed, may tax natural-gas transmission companies as well. New Mexico may triple its severance tax on uranium; Nevada will collect one-fourth the state budget from legalized gambling; Florida taxes citrus growers and Maine its timber...
Last year a sacroiliac condition began to bother Atkinson. Three times in the last eight months he had to give up his mounts and rest. Fortnight ago at Florida's Tropical Park, the pain became unbearable. Last week, at 42, on the advice of his physician, he retired. Said he: "I guess I've been around the world a couple of times on horseback in the afternoon. Maybe that's enough...
...recent years U.S. Supreme Court rulings have given states more and more power to ban peaceful picketing. Last week the Supreme Court reversed this trend, ruled that states may ban picketing only when there is violence. The court's ruling came in reviewing a Florida Supreme Court ban on picketing by the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Hotel and Restaurant Employees, which struck 23 Miami and Miami Beach hotels in 1955. seeking bargaining rights. Because the union represented only a few employees, the Florida court barred it from picketing. The Supreme Court held that state courts are without jurisdiction to issue...