Word: florida
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this chamber could question for a moment the man most responsible for this state of the nation. He is Lyndon B. Johnson." Other Democrats of every persuasion fell in line to praise Johnson and his program. Among them: Alaska's Bob Bartlett, Florida's Spessard Holland, Wyoming's Gale McGee, Alabama's John Sparkman. "Great progressive leadership," cried Ohio's Stephen Young. This was far more than the usual reflex action to an attack on a member of the club: the Johnsonian gonfalon, it was plain to see, was moving deep into the liberal ranks...
...Hungarian cavalryman on the Russian front (he later lost an arm), became tutor to the Habsburg family in 1917 and claims he is the only living person who knows the ''true story" of the tragedy at Mayerling. Emigrating to the U.S., he tried orange growing in Florida, wound up in 1927 as assistant professor in Georgetown's then tiny history department (now one of the nation's largest) and chairman in 1947. Though Kerekes is first a teacher ("Because I can that way make contact with youth"), he has stayed close to the Washington pulse, advised...
...Colorado's McNichols, Florida's Collins, Idaho's Smylie, Illinois' Stratton, New Jersey's Meyner, North Carolina's Hodges, North Dakota's Davis, Utah's Clyde, West Virginia's Underwood...
...first European to be world heavyweight boxing champion in 25 years, Sweden's Ingemar Johansson was soundly lionized last week. Vacationing in Florida before returning to Goteborg to enjoy the biggest and loudest victory celebration ever given a homecoming Swede, he drew hordes of females straining for a glimpse of his rugged Scandinavian features. "Ingo" went deep-sea fishing and just missed catching a sailfish, frolicked in a saltwater pool with pretty Birgit Lundgren. She squelched talk that she is Ingo's fiancee, characterized herself as just a good friend who travels with Johansson to take care...
Like birds in the spring, polio moves northward over the nation from the South. This year, the fifth since Salk vaccine was introduced, it began in Florida and southern Texas, hit hardest at Mexicans. Last week it struck the Middle West, with concentrated epidemics among slum-dwelling Negroes in Des Moines and Kansas City. At week's end the U.S. Public Health Service reported that thus far in 1959 there have been 855 polio cases (574 paralytic) as against 588 (297 paralytic) in the same period last year...