Word: florida
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wants to be accepted-loved and enjoyed for his own personal worth. If the Mrs. Brookes and May Britts outnumbered the Stokely Carmichaels and Rap Browns of the U.S., we could leave the rioting to those nice, white little college boys and girls who have enough money to visit Florida every year...
SPORTSMAN'S HOLIDAY (NBC, 5:30-6 p.m.). Ted Williams, onetime baseball great and now a fishing demon, gives some tips on how to catch Florida's elu-I sive bonefish; from there, Host Curt Gowdy travels north to Canada for some wonderful salmon fishing with a pair of winsome lady anglers...
...Located at Haines Point, in spacious Potomac Park, it is to be crowned by a 114-ft.-high greenhouse, shaped like a streamlined horseshoe, which will permit scientists from the Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife to construct complete ecologies, or natural environments, within it. Reconstructed portions of the Florida Everglades, coral reefs and East and West Coast tidal pools will display not only fish but also insects and even birds in native common habitats...
...neither students nor faculty take warmly to books during the hot sticky summers. Lack of summer enrollment was blamed largely for the University of Pittsburgh's financial crisis, and professorial discontent with the summer work led to abandonment of the trimester by the state university sys tem in Florida. Yet this week some 800 students perspiring over final examinations at Wisconsin's Beloit Col lege testify to the fact that the trimester can live up to its early promises...
...five home builders went out of business. As small firms vanish, giant combines rich enough to build on a huge scale are taking over. Big corporations such as ITT are increasingly joining forces with builders-often by merger, sometimes through joint ventures. Last year, for example, Westinghouse Electric acquired Florida's Coral Ridge Properties and is now busy building a city for 60,000 residents near Fort Lauderdale. Pennsylvania Railroad's Macco Realty Co. is developing an 87,500-acre Rancho California community near Los Angeles with Kaiser Industries and Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp. American Standard...