Word: florida
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dogs, New Tricks. Heart and brain operations on pets are still uncommon, mainly because they command such high fees. But in Pasadena, Dr. Robert H. Pudenz has successfully removed several brain tumors, both malignant and benign, from dogs and cats. A Florida vet has removed worms from a dog's pulmonary artery with the animal under hypothermia. A dog has no appendix, so is spared the need for an appendectomy, but he has a human-type caecum (a dead-end pouch at a turn in the intestines), which is the favorite hideaway of the whipworm. Vermifuges often cannot reach...
...moderate Southern governors are workinga Damon-Pythias routine that is turning many a Dixie radical red with frustration. North Carolina's Luther Hodges was chairman of the 1957 Southern Governors Conference, engineered the election of Florida's LeRoy Collins as his successor -even though a nominating committee had already settled on Georgia's racist Marvin Griffin. Collins, in turn, was succeeded last year as chairman of the Southern Regional Education Board by Hodges. Last week Hodges worked another ploy. Planning their Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner in Raleigh, North Carolina Democrats planned to invite as main speaker...
...mighty industry has come upon sick and precarious times. Our railroads are in a very serious condition." Thus last week did Florida's Senator George Smathers, chairman of the Senate Surface Transportation Subcommittee, sound the keynote for a five-day public hearing in Washington. To the marble-pillared Senate caucus room he summoned a parade of more than two dozen railroad executives to describe what ails the railroads and suggest how to cure...
...from the sands of Florida's Cape Canaveral last week shot the Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile with fiery blast and awesome roar. It climbed majestically into a layer of low-hanging clouds, disappeared to the southeast, and a few minutes later plummeted into the ocean 600 miles away-as planned...
...WORST FLORIDA WINTER in this century has taken $55 million bite out of state's citrus, vegetable and flower production. Heavy snow wiped out half of crop in Dade County (Miami), but growers hope to recoup by pushing up prices...