Word: florida
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Burlington, Vt., Oct. 21 (UPI).-The mayors of Burlington and Rutland, Vt. said they would buy plane tickets home from Florida at their own expense because the Air Force junket they were on was a "fraud, a terrible waste of tax money." . . ."It's a damned outrage [said Rutland's Mayor Dan J. Healy], an outrage being perpetrated not only on the taxpayers of Vermont, but the entire U.S." . . ."The whole thing is a fraud [said Burlington's Mayor James E. Fitzpatrick], a terrible waste of tax money and our time. We're coming home...
...Cuban exiles who live near Miami and glower across the Straits of Florida at Fidel Castro, last week's opportunity for a propaganda blow was irresistible: 2,000 U.S. travel agents were freeloading on Castro in Havana in a convention dedicated to the fatuous proposition that present-day Cuba is a tourist paradise. Off from Florida went a DC-3 loaded with anti-Castro leaflets, which fluttered down upon the Cuban capital. Fidel Castro, shaken by a key defection in his rebel army that same day, and reports that terrorists were at work, filled the air with machine...
...travel agents, gathered in their hotels, Castro tourist officials solemnly declared that onetime Hero Matos was a "counterrevolutionary, a running dog of the plantation owners." Then, just as Castro, returning from Camaguey, stepped out of his helicopter in downtown Havana, the DC-3 from Florida roared low over the skyline and dumped its load of white pamphlets...
Search for Facts. In Florida, the U.S. started investigating the charges "with great urgency," and two days later the FBI got its man: ex-Air Force Chief Diaz Lanz. He admitted to the FBI that he had written the pamphlets (calling Castro "the real traitor of the revolution") and flown the rented DC-3 out of an airstrip "near Miami." Searching the books to determine whether Diaz Lanz had violated any law, the U.S. took note that there are 280 airstrips in Florida. The U.S. asked the Inter-American Peace Commission, troubleshooting arm of the Organization of American States...
...Louisiana State (6-0)-never spectacular but, as always, equal to the occasion, edging Florida...