Word: florida
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sore throat, a hot day, and a fast pace turned women's cross country star Darlene Beckford's trip to Florida Saturday into something less than a vacation...
...researchers interviewed 1136 Florida wives, half widows whose husbands had died of heart attacks, and half wives whose husbands were still alive. Clinical Fellow in Medicine, Ward Casscells, who worked on the study, said "psychological stress" among retirees might be a contributing factor...
...season isn't quite over, though, for Beckford. She travels to Florida State Saturday to try to add All-American to her list of accolades that include All-Ivy and All-Eastern...
Another beneficiary has been Air Florida, one of the many smaller carriers across the country that have been able to spread their wings under deregulation. Two years ago, it was just another rickety one-state airline, linking six Florida cities with half a dozen planes. Today it is an aggressive regional carrier that serves 23 cities, including Washington, D.C., Philadelphia and New York, with a fleet of jets. This fiscal year it turned its first real profit: $2.4 million. Says Chairman C. Edward Acker: "Without deregulation we'd still be tiny. It has given us the ability to move...
...When Air Florida expanded to New York and Washington, it undercut its bigger competitors by offering one-way fares of just over $50 (since raised to $70). In a kind of backhanded salute to its aggressiveness, Eastern and other carriers struck back with lower fares on instate routes. They forced Air Florida to reduce sharply its Miami-Tampa flights and all but abandon the Miami-Orlando run, but the airline retaliated, charging Eastern with "predatory pricing" before the CAB. Eastern spokesmen denied the Air Florida challenge, saying, "They're a gnat. We didn't even know they were...