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...gatekeeper. Thundered the indignant Tribune: "In their private lives, they [principals and teachers] must conduct themselves so as to set an example for youth. A race track is essentially a gambling place . . . Some tracks in the past have fallen under control of known racketeers and their associates." Retorted the Hillsborough County Classroom Teachers Association: "Because of the salary level of the teaching profession, it is necessary for many school employees to seek other lines of employment...
...since Reconstruction days had Florida elected a G.O.P. Representative. William C. Cramer came close in 1952 in the Tampa-St. Petersburg district, lost out only on the count of absentee ballots-and never stopped running. This time he made it. Hillsborough County (Tampa) is normally Democratic and has a population of 249,000-of whom only 33,890 took the trouble to vote. Pinellas County (St. Petersburg) is Republican. Its population is 158,000-and 61,000 voted. Result: a 1,600-vote edge for Cramer...
...James P. Jorgenson of Palm Beach, Fla.; John B. Millard of Newton, Mass.; Donald J. Mulvey of Andover, Mass.; Alan S. Rapperport of University City, Mo.; Marvin Sandler of Brooklyn, N. Y.; Robert A. Smails of Omaha, Neb.; William P. Travis of Cleveland, Ohio; Charles M. Walter of Hillsborough, Cal.; John T. Whatley of Austin, Tex.; Ralph L. Zan of Worcester, Mass.; Paul Bender of Brooklyn...
...swing through Washington. Gromyko was stopped momentarily when a grey-haired little woman thrust a bunch of red roses into his arms. Then he retreated, in a private limousine flying the hammer & sickle, to the 39-room mansion erected by California's railroad-building Crocker family in suburban Hillsborough (which he had rented at a reported $250 a day in preference to a downtown hotel suite...
...Fact of Peace." In general, the U.S. had no nerves about whatever delays and charges Gromyko & Co. might be brewing at Hillsborough. Before the President flew in from Washington to make his inaugural speech at the conference, the State Department took a firm grip on the events of this week. "One definite prediction can be made," said a State Department estimate of the situation. "In a matter of days the treaty will have been signed by so many allied powers . . . that there will be no doubt in any quarter as to the fact of peace or the terms of peace...