Word: florida
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Change Comes Hard From the deep fissions and hard fusions of the South, where no leading public figure had yet dared affirm the validity of the Supreme Court's desegregation decrees, Florida's Governor LeRoy Collins last week sounded a clear call for reason and conciliation. Said he at ceremonies marking his reinauguration: "It will do us no good whatever to defy the U.S. Supreme Court ... Its decisions are the law of the land. And this nation's strength and Florida's strength are bottomed on the premise that ours is a land...
...power, it cannot "compel social adjustments," which can only emerge from changes in "the hearts and minds of people." The court itself, he declared, acknowledged this fact in its school decision by recognizing "to a degree local conditions and problems" and thus not making integration "compulsory." Thus "segregation in Florida schools . . . can be expected to prevail for the foreseeable future...
Odyssey (Sun. 4 p.m., CBS). "Buried Treasure-40 Fathoms Deep," an exploration of sunken Spanish galleons off the Florida Keys...
...time Open Champion Gary Middlecoff and San Francisco Hotelman Ed Crowley finished with 187. to set a tournament record and win the team title, golfers and gallery alike were too relaxed to care much that Florida's Jay Hebert had won the individual pro prize of $2,500-though it was a pleasant excuse for raising a glass in one last toast...
...driving rain washed the front-runners right out of the money in the final round of the Los Angeles Open golf tournament. But former P.G.A. Champion Doug Ford splashed out of the pack with a 280-stroke total to edge Florida's Jay Hebert away from the $7,000 first prize by a stroke...