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Florida has plenty of home-grown industry as well, ranging from fashions to phosphates, from oranges to oysters (which are having one of their best years). Florida's oranges, grapefruit, tangerines and limes, and its fresh and frozen orange juice account for 65% of the U.S. citrus crop, a third of the world crop. Frozen juice has added stability to the business, eases the sharp ups and downs caused by whimsical weather. Oranges have become such a good investment that one enterprising developer is selling plots in groves that he will manage much like a mutual fund, planting orange...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: FAST-GROWING FLORIDA | 4/14/1961 | See Source »

...early riser (6:45 in winter, 5:30 in summer), Dr. Keys eats a leisurely breakfast-half a grapefruit, dry cereal with skim milk, unbuttered toast, jam and coffee. Then, brown paper lunch bag on the seat beside him, he drives to work in a two-toned Karmann-Ghia. Although lunch is slim-a sardine sandwich, an olive, a cooky and a glass of skim milk-Keys eats with deliberate slowness. "I don't like to insult food," he says. Lunch done, he sits back, closes his eyes, and goes to sleep for exactly ten minutes in his office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Fat of the Land | 1/13/1961 | See Source »

...knew it. Gone were the cigars and bourbon and branch water ("striking a blow for liberty") that he gave up just before his 90th birthday. He is still quick to provide visitors with the wherewithal to strike their own blows, but his current personal quaff is just plain grapefruit juice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 5, 1960 | 12/5/1960 | See Source »

...size or mass of his latest white dwarf, but he believes that it weighs at least ten tons, or 20,000 lbs., per cubic inch. It could conceivably weigh as much as 1,000 tons per cubic inch, in which case a chunk of star no bigger than a grapefruit would weigh more than the 84,000-ton Queen Elizabeth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Dimmest Dwarf | 8/15/1960 | See Source »

Vanguard's second virtue is the solar battery that has kept its small radio beeping steadily, long after bigger satellites lost their voices. Tracked by its radio signals, the "grapefruit's" motions in its orbit have given invaluable information about the earth's slightly bumpy gravitational field, and about the shape of the earth itself. Last week another bit of information came down from the little satellite. There was a slight, unexplained wandering in its long-studied orbit. After much calculation, Dr. Peter Munsen and other orbit experts of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration reached their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: News from Space | 3/28/1960 | See Source »

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