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...Demo-Kirks." The man who changed that, and thus gave Republican Kirk his big chance, was Tennessee-born Bob High, now in his fifth term as mayor of Miami. Proclaiming that "the issue is integrity," Teetotaler High upset Incumbent Governor Haydon Burns in an acrimonious Democratic primary fight (TIME, June 3). Burns has withheld support from High, and many Burns followers-including the wealthiest backers-have become "Demo-Kirks...
...Pete Timesmen cover a geriatric city, but they need their youth to keep up with the paper's tradition of aggressive, investigative reporting. The paper won a 1964 Pulitzer Prize for its scandal-packed report on a Florida turnpike boondoggle; most recently, it took out after Governor Haydon Burns with stories attacking him for nepotism and doing questionable favors for an insurance man. The Times's crusade helped defeat Burns's re-election bid in the May primary...
Time to "take off the gloves," said Governor W. Haydon Burns after he failed to muster a majority in Florida's May 3 Democratic primary. Instead, he stuck out his chin. In last week's run off for the party's nomination for Governor, he first threw away the votes of a lot of rural whites. Then he proceeded to throw away the votes of a lot of urban Negroes. That still left plenty of Floridians, but not enough to save the presumably entrenched political pro from disaster...
...into three parts is beginning to look better on paper than in practice. Four years ago Florida, in hopes of handling more students without a big expansion, became the first and only state to adopt the trimester statewide. Last week, bowing to professorial discontent and the wishes of Governor Haydon Burns, Florida decided to drop...
...state that counts tourism as its No. 1 business, it seemed only good politics when Florida's popular Governor Haydon Burns proposed a $300 million road-widening program last spring. Democrat Burns, 53, a former mayor of Jacksonville whose snappy dress and smooth talk have earned him the nickname "Slick," campaigned all over the state for the issue, acknowledging that his political prestige was at stake. Last month, in the wake of a Tampa Tribune report that the Gov ernor had requested $250,000 from contractors to ballyhoo the road pro gram, Florida's voters rejected the bond...