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There is a little poetic embellishment to the above scene, but it is pretty close to the picture of how-things-might-have-been that emerges from the relaxed mind of Gerald Ford, ensconced last week at the edge of Thunderbird's glorious fairways in Palm Springs. If he had been elected two years ago, Ford goes on, he would have kept the B-l bomber moving, gone ahead with the neutron bomb and the M-X missile. He also would have had less trouble than that fellow now in the White House in getting a Panama Canal treaty...
Gregory Moran Palm Springs, Calif...
...ground, chaos spread through a neighborhood of neat small homes and tall palm trees. The bulk of the airliner smashed into houses near Nile and Dwight streets, the more intact remnant of the Cessna about six blocks away. The terrified PSA passengers trapped in the plummeting craft died instantly on impact with the earth. "It was a nonsurvival crash," one investigator said. Indeed, the carnage left in the wake of the fireballing metal fuselage gave mute testimony to that. Scraps of clothing hung from telephone poles. Parts of a briefcase were found here, fragments of computer printout papers there...
...late last month, Florida news organizations have paid or pledged some $175,000 to No Casinos Inc., the principal antigambling lobby. Big spenders included the St. Petersburg Times, Jacksonville's Florida Times-Union, the Chicago Tribune Co. (Orlando Sentinel Star, Fort Lauderdale News), the Cox Newspapers (Miami News, Palm Beach Post and Times), the Tampa Tribune and Wometco Enterprises (Miami's WTVJ-TV-each of which gave $25,000. The Knight-Ridder chain's Miami Herald, largest paper in the state, gave...
...since the 1959 Cuban revolution has Florida's glittering gold coast experienced anything quite like it: almost daily landings, from Key Biscayne to Palm Beach, of rickety wooden boats, some with homemade sails and tree trunks for masts. All are packed, gunwale to gunwale, with Haitian refugees carrying their possessions on their backs and in small wicker baskets. Fleeing high unemployment, food shortages and political repression at home, they have made the dangerous 800-mile voyage across the open Caribbean in search of a better life...