Word: florida
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...means as widespread as many Northern civil rights advocates believe. Through Texas, Arkansas and the Border States, Negroes not only register and vote but make such an impact at local-election levels that both parties bid for their support. In North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and Florida, urban Negroes generally register and vote, while rural Negroes do not. The greatest concentration of civil rights violations at the polls lies in four states of the Deep South, and the statistics readily prove the point...
Fort Lauderdale's 18-hole municipal golf course, a choice piece of Florida real estate, has been appraised at a cool million dollars. But last week the city commissioners, by a 3-to-2 vote, knocked down the course for $562,400 to the Fort Lauderdale Men's Golf Association, which will henceforth run it as a restricted private club. Reason: a Negro foursome, denied permission to play, had won a Federal Court order to open the course to Negroes...
...with Mr. and Mrs. Melvin B. Ellis of Brookline, Mass., the Jewish couple who took her ten days after she was born out of wedlock to her Roman Catholic mother, Marjorie McCoy. Judge Prunty ruled that the Ellises were fit parents, approved their application to complete adoption procedures under Florida law. The decision ended six years of litigation and controversy: Hildy's mother had persuaded a Massachusetts court to order the Ellises to give Hildy up so that her mother could turn her over to a Catholic adoption agency. Rather than submit, Ellis abandoned his home and thriving...
...last week. "Everything centers on the Cape. We look at it and live with it every day." The Cape is Cape Canaveral, home of the Air Force missile test center, and the everyday facts of life of nearby Cocoa, Cocoa Beach, Melbourne, Rockledge and Titusville-on Florida's east coast-probably have no parallel anywhere else in the world...
Paging Krafft-Ebing. Built during the Florida boom, the pink hotel is "a Mistinguett, a Magda Lupescu among hotels-old and slightly raddled . . . waiting patiently for the chosen few who could afford its haughty hospitality." The raffish oddballs who people the Dennis-Erskine hotel are pretty special, and would have raised Krafft-Ebing's interest if not his eyebrows. There is T. J. Sturt III, a millionaire alcoholic who wears a pink girdle and phones random city fire departments to announce blazes of mysterious origin. There is seventyish L. Harvey Crull Jr., who puts under doors pamphlets announcing...