Word: florida
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...Denis Norden touts the merits of Hollywood, Disneyland and Fisherman's Wharf. "The Golden Gate is red," Norden intones while the majestic San Francisco bridge flickers onscreen, giving way to a stand of trees. "Giant redwoods are green." Europeans who want brochures on Disney World and other attractions in Florida can now write directly to a British address and get a quicker response than they would if they had to send an inquiry across the Atlantic...
...stem this rising tide of alcohol, Berkeley, Stanford and a number of other schools have instituted undergraduate awareness programs featuring lectures and discussions on the dangers of drinking. A voluntary alcohol- awareness organization called Bacchus, begun at the University of Florida in 1976, has spread to some 280 campuses across the nation. "There has generally been much greater attention on what damage alcohol can do," says Robert % Saltz, senior research scientist at the Prevention Research Center in Berkeley. But he adds, "There is still very little consensus on what to do about...
...Dukakis and his staff thread that needle, his aides tinker with combinations of states that can produce the magic electoral-vote number of 270. Because most of the South, including Florida and Texas, looks tough for Dukakis, his tacticians are increasingly focusing on a Western strategy that starts with California, spreads up the coast to Oregon and Washington, and even reaches a few Republican bastions in the Rockies. Californians should be warned now: they will get plenty of attention even after next week's primary ballots have been counted...
...tough approach scored a victory of sorts last week. A Florida jury convicted Carlos Lehder Rivas, a kingpin of Colombia's Medellin cartel drug empire, of conspiring to smuggle 3.3 tons of cocaine into the U.S. He could be sentenced to life plus 150 years in prison. But no one was so naive as to believe jailing Lehder would make a dent in drug smuggling. In Congress, a desperate search was under way to find something that might work. The Senate has followed the House's lead by voting 83 to 6 to force the military to participate in antismuggling...
...support staff worker flew to Boston in the morning from a vacation in Florida, was picked up by a volunteer at Logan Airport, voted and flew back to Florida...