Word: florida
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Daytona Beach, when a National Airlines attendant last week yelled angrily for Massachusetts' Democratic Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy to hustle aboard or get left in Florida, Mayor J. Hart Long said pointedly: "He doesn't have much respect for the future President of the U.S., does he?" To a Young Democrats' convention in Reno a fortnight before, University of Minnesota Coed Geri Storm brought word from her 58 sorority sisters: "Every girl told me to give Senator Kennedy all her love and to tell him they would all vote for him." At the University of Kansas, Kennedy...
Neck Out. Outside the Senate, in his speeches around the nation, Jack Kennedy has held steadfastly to his independence. He appeared before the Florida Bar Association, criticized the legal profession for its "apparent indifference" to lawyers who, by the evidence before the McClellan committee, had engaged in "legal racketeering." Last spring he confronted the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, criticized it for its stand against foreign...
...balmy Boca Raton last week, Florida's sunshine-spirited Governor LeRoy Collins found another opportunity to ladle out the easy-does-it philosophy that carried him to the chairmanship of the Southern Governors' Conference and a national reputation as one of the South's staunchest moderates. Collins urged convention-gathered members of the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association to "develop and defend a public atmosphere free of racial fears and bigotry." Declared he earnestly: the South must stop fighting the Supreme Court, discard the idea of massive resistance, "seize the opportunity to clear the emotional atmosphere and undertake...
...political courage of a high order to talk in these blunt, realistic terms to people who have been nurtured on the pap of white supremacy." But matched against performance, LeRoy Collins' words were wearing thin. Unlike four other "Confederate" states, i.e., North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Arkansas, Florida still has no Negro children in white schools. Collins has proposed no plans to admit them, gradually or otherwise. And, under Collins-approved legislation, Florida schools can be closed down in "emergencies" or any time that the Federal Government should send in federal troops. LeRoy Collins' moderation has begun...
...automatic and semiautomatic radar stations running across the wilderness of Central Canada. ¶ An intricate "interior zone" warning and control complex of offshore air and sea picket lines, continent-wide networks of radar stations, identification and interception centers, ground and air combat commands, from Labrador and British Columbia to Florida and Southern California...