Word: florida
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Later that year, Goetz applied for a pistol permit. Although he cited the fact that he routinely carried large sums of cash and valuable equipment, his application was rejected on grounds of insufficient need. Goetz was bitter. On a subsequent trip to his family's Florida home, he bought a nickel-plated, lightweight Smith & Wesson .38-cal. revolver...
...drawback to being a piano player is that, unlike most other instruments, you can't take yours with you, and the quality of strange pianos may be poor. Blacklow says that travel can be difficult for him, because he must find a piano immediately. On a recent trip to Florida, for example, he had to obtain permission from the manager of the hotel where he was staying to use the piano in the hotel lounge during if-hours...
When the highflying Florida securities dealer collapsed, it left dozens of creditors with losses totaling as much as $315 million. E.S.M. had attracted investors by offering them high returns on short-term loans backed by Government securities. Many of those securities cannot now be found. Says Miami Attorney Thomas Tew, the court-appointed receiver for E.S.M.: "It's probably one of the most colossal, stupendous frauds I've ever seen." Tew and others have sued Alexander Grant & Co., the Chicago-based accounting firm that gave E.S.M. a clean bill of financial health for the past five years even though...
...Panamanian island. Next came the Carter Doctrine, declaring a return to unilateral American action, if necessary, in defense of Western interests. That doctrine rested on the emergence of a rapid deployment force. Unfortunately, the force turned out neither rapid nor deployable. It enjoys a vigorous theoretical existence in southern Florida, whence it is poorly situated to repel the Red Army...
...long since been classified as high jinks by Damon Runyon, and this was the rollicking spirit in which McLain was viewed, even when he was suspended for carrying a pistol six months later, two years before his big-league life wore out at 28. He is in a Florida jail now, awaiting sentencing for racketeering, extortion and cocaine possession, 41 years old and facing possibly 75 years in prison. The two Cy Young Awards have been sold. In recent years he tried to make his living gambling on golf courses. "I learned what Lee Trevino meant when he said, 'Pressure...