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...speechmaking over, Lyndon, his wife and his daughters ducked into the Fontainebleau's plush La Ronde room to watch Cyd Charisse dance, later strolled along neon-lit Collins Avenue. Lyndon got to bed by 2 a.m., was up before 5 to drive to Homestead Air Force Base...
...complained. He tried to withdraw from the Colonial National Invitation golf tournament after two rounds, then changed his mind, and wound up 20 strokes behind Winner Julius Boros-his worst showing in eight years on the pro tour. At that, Palmer picked up and headed for the family homestead in Latrobe, Pa., to think about something else besides golf for a spell...
...Maverick family homestead did not fare so well as the Mavericks did themselves. The old acerage became in the mid-nineteenth century a rather reputable, almost elegant, community of proper Bostonians, but as the century subsided so did Noddle's Island...
...clipper Sam Houston landed at 6:10 p.m. at Florida's Homestead Air Force Base. A dozen ambulances waited near by. Dr. Lee C. Watkins, chief of the U.S. Quarantine Station in Miami, ran up the ramp, peered in at the plane's 107 passengers, and groaned: "My God, yellow jaundice-all of them." Then he realized that the lights bathing the area made everyone appear a sickly yellow. The passengers filed stiffly out of the aircraft, then melted in the laughing, tearful, incredulous realization of freedom. Cried Carlos Leon, the first off: "I just...
Miro was one of the few Cubans permitted to meet the planes. Most of the prisoners' relatives had spent the day in Miami's Dinner Key Auditorium, about 30 miles from Homestead. They gathered, about 10,000 of them, in a joyous mood. They waited and waited. Almost twelve hours passed while Castro stalled. Even after landing at Homestead, the ex-prisoners were kept from their kinfolk while being fitted for fresh khakis and given a roast beef dinner...