Word: florida
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...movie was photographed both in the Bahamas and in Florida's Marineland Studios by a group of three young men who got some of their training at Harvard where they produced in 1949 A Touch of the Times, the only feature length movie which has thus far resulted from the activity of Ivy Films. In Secrets of the Reef, which started out as a twenty minute short, they sought to suggest the way life happens around a reef in the southern Atlantic less from the viewpoint of men than from that of the creatures themselves. There are no humans...
...Your article about the Gulf Waterway [Oct. 1] was interesting, but as a sensitive taxpayer I would like to know why the users of the waterway could not use their annual $83 million saving to build the cross-Florida extension. They get the benefits in real cash savings, so why should we taxpayers pay their future bills...
...Among the precarious, prosperous Florida is still Republican; West Virginia is still Democratic. On the heels of his first campaign trip across Texas, Vice President Richard Nixon fired back another surprise for G.O.P. headquarters: do not write off Texas' 24 electoral votes in 1956. Nixon's prediction: even Texas, which went for Ike in 1952 but looked unshakably Democratic this time, might tip to Ike if the President would campaign in the state...
Perfect Game. There was brief hope as the week began. Crafty Sal Maglie was rested and ready. The Yanks were gambling on Don Larsen. a lighthearted playboy noted most for spectacular achievements such as wrapping his car around a Florida telephone pole during spring training. In the second game, he had lasted less than two innings...
...wake of the firing of County Health Officer Deborah Coggins for lunching with a Negro nurse in a white restaurant (TIME, Oct. 8), Florida's Jefferson County school board added its own unsavory sequel to the story: it ordered Fifth-Grade Teacher Flo Way to resign after she defended Dr. Coggins at a public meeting. But Teacher Way was carrying on as usual. "I feel I have the right to free speech." said...