Word: palmettos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Petersburg, Fla., was an embattled city last week. At night, trucks drove through the palm-lined streets and the stands of scrub pine and palmetto, spewing a chemical fog onto house-and treetops, all the way to the mangrove swamps lining Florida's Gulf coast. Local citizens were fighting, if not on the beaches, at least in the streets and their own backyards, cleaning out every container in which mosquitoes could find enough water to breed. Bird lovers got a stern official warning: stop feeding the birds or putting out water for them...
...voice, John Glenn began to count: "Ten, nine, eight, seven, six . . ." A great yellow-white gush of flame spewed out from the Atlas-D missile. For nearly four seconds, it seemed rooted to its pad in the space-age wasteland of Cape Canaveral, a flat, sandy scrubland dotted by palmetto trees and looming, ungainly missile gantries. Then the rocket took off, heading into the brilliant blue sky. "Lift-off," said Glenn. "The clock is operating. We're under...
ROYAL S. KELLOGG Palmetto...
...same couple were leaving Palmetto Presbyterian two Sundays later, they were surprised and pleased when Pastor Wyrick paused as they filed past him, greeted them by name and added: "I'm glad you could come over again from Fort Lauderdale...
...member fails to show up for several weeks, Pastor Wyrick gives his name to a church officer, who telephones him for permission to pay a visit-to which he brings a taped recording of the previous Sunday's hymns and sermon. Wyrick keeps Palmetto's parishioners in touch during the week with a mimeographed news letter, a column in the Coral Gables Times, and a "Dial-a-Devotional" telephone service pepped up with maxims that he composes mostly while driving at night. Sample: "Just because a church member is always up in the air doesn't mean...