Word: florida
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With shock wave, fiery blast and departing roar, the U.S. last week sent three missiles streaming into the Atlantic skies from Florida, and marked the most important week of U.S. missile firing to date. From the hot launching pads at Cape Canaveral Test Center shot the Air Force's intermediate-range Thor, the Army's counterpart Jupiter and-successfully for the first time-the Air Force's intercontinental ballistic missile Atlas...
Swimming & Sand. Jamaica's six-story, 176-room Arawak (up to $58 a day for double with meals) is designed for aficionados of Miami Beach styling: rippling concrete, bright colors, polygonal swimming pool, straw-and-mahogany decor. Its planner was Morris Lapidus, architect of Florida's Fontainebleau, Eden Roc and Americana, who likes his hotels to "tickle and amuse." The $4,000,000 Arawak is set on Jamaica's smart north shore in sunny palm groves between a high, green range of mountains and the azure Caribbean, has a white sand beach. Owners: an international group headed...
...Captured within a fortnight after landing on Long Island and Florida beaches, and tried in secret by seven U.S. generals, six were executed, two were imprisoned...
...thing to do next is get some more hardware onto that Florida launching pad as quickly as possible, load it and fire...
Capital Airlines, laden with its full share of financial troubles, flew headlong into a downdraft. In Washington last week, experts for the Civil Aeronautics Board withdrew a recommendation that Capital get a long-range route from the Great Lakes to Florida's rich vacation market, instead advised the CAB that Capital was not equipped to fly the run. CAB's reason: the original recommendation was based on the proposition that Capital would have new planes to fly the route. Since then, Capital's financial position has deteriorated so badly that it had to postpone plane deliveries indefinitely...