Word: florida
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Washingtonians of the 1940s may recall Florida's florid, horse-faced Democratic Senator Claude ("Red"') Pepper with some awe, if not affection. He bounced into the Senate in 1937, bounded from New Deal cause to New Deal cause, for a time became a glib apologist for Russia and a booster for left-winging Henry Wallace-and set an alltime record for getting himself photographed kissing his wife in public places. Defeated in 1950 by Democrat George Smathers,* Pepper repeatedly made comeback promises, and last week he was trying to keep them. His opponent: conservative Democratic Senator Spessard Holland...
...week's end Pepper and Holland were still racing breathlessly across Florida, trying to make their charges stick before the primary election day next week. Florida's politicians gauged it a close race, with Claude Pepper given a chance. It was enough to give Washington the shakes...
This year Round Table impressed railbirds by breezing home under 130 Ibs. to win Florida's mile-and-one-quarter $100,000 Gulfstream Park Handicap. His pace for the mile-and-one-eighth en route was just two-fifths of a second off the world record of 1:46.8. In his drive to top Nashua's moneymaking, Round Table is entered in this week's $100,000 Washington Park Handicap at Arlington and this month's $100,000 United Nations Handicap at Atlantic City, NJ. and the $100,000 Woodward Stakes at Belmont, L.I. Possible opponent...
Part of the trouble, he says, is that only five states-Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and New York-require 30 semester hours of training in their subject for English teachers, the standard thought necessary by the council. In Massachusetts (nine semester hours) and in New Hampshire and Wyoming (the least choosy, with six), it is perfectly possible for a teacher to confront English classes without having studied a line of Shakespeare in college. A year of freshman composition and a one-semester look at the Lake poets would satisfy Massachusetts...
...domes. In a land where steel is costly and labor cheap, he proved that he could use concrete shells to build a big church for $41,000, a warehouse for as little as 50? per sq. ft. Clients, including real-estate developers in Texas and a restaurant chain in Florida, have found them not only cheap but handsome. In his just completed lagoon restaurant (opposite), done with Architect Joaquin Alvarez Ordoñez, Candela uses undulating folds of great elegance. For his Santa Fe bandstand, done with Architect Mario Pani, he combined six hyperbolic paraboloids to form...