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...reason that Smith gets away with heresies that would not be tolerated from others in the profession is that his boat rocking is done from a well-established position in the first-class section. Back in Lakeland, Fla., his practice earned him $100,000 a year and will probably be worth more when his presidency ends. One big client was the phosphate industry, which only recently lost its battle to avoid a special tax. But during the years Smith was lobbying for the industry, he was always able to make good on his boast: "There ain't going...
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...Around Lakeland, phosphate miners are tearing huge holes in the earth that endanger the local water table. At the edge of Big Cypress Swamp, drainage ditches for new housing may interrupt the already imperiled water flow into the Everglades. To the north, Walt Disney Productions is building a City of Tomorrow for 50,000 people that may cut off some of Orlando's water supply, since the site is atop porous soil that lets rainwater into Florida's vital aquifer. That underground layer of limestone stores much of the state's annual 57 inches of rainfall...
...week's end, when the Tigers opened their spring training camp in Lakeland, Fla., McLain was among the missing. He had just been called in for another long talk with Commissioner Kuhn, after which Kuhn announced that he was suspending McLain until a full investigation into his bookmaking was completed. If any of the allegations prove true, it could well mean the end of McLain's career...
After working out for two days on the Detroit Tiger's practice field in Lakeland, Fla., the squad met the Florida Southern nine. Coach Norm Shepard used three pitchers, and alternated fifteen other players in the field to get a good look at his squad. Still, Harvard led until the bottom of the ninth when Southern scored the winning...