Word: pensacola
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trouble with the night before is the morning after. His bankroll suffers most. In 1961 Doug won five tournaments, was the tour's No. 3 money winner with $57,428. By last year his earnings had melted to $34,474, and going into Florida's Pensacola Open two weeks ago, he had not won a tournament in 23 months. So Daiquiri Doug decided to reform. "I have quit drinking," he announced, "except when I have something to celebrate...
...Space" [March 12] again proves the accuracy of TIME textstyle in presenting the facts of the Navy's Man in Space research. The Naval Air Training Command is very proud of our contribution to the nation's space programs, but to label NAS (Naval Air Station) Pensacola as NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) Pensacola constitutes a TIMEslip. TIME is always welcome at NAS Pensacola...
...cylindrical room at the Pensacola Naval Air Station was spinning around at ten revolutions per minute all last week. Inside it, along with a medical officer, were four young volunteer enlisted men who seemed to have nothing more serious to do than loll around in shorts and T shirts, watch TV, phone girl friends downtown, play catch with a tennis ball or toss darts...
...growth grips Florida's state universities, but so far the system seems created half to rise and half to fall. On the main campus, the University of Florida at Gainesville, new and needed buildings sprout almost monthly; the now-rising University of West Florida in panhandle-tip Pensacola may have to draw students from neighboring states to fill its classrooms. Spanking new Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton is the nation's most computerized, automated and flexible institution of higher education; at Florida State University in Tallahassee, a frustrated president is all set to leave...
...county school boards and located so that 70% of all students are within commuting distance. Florida Atlantic, built on the site of a former U.S. Air Force base, opened four months ago as a two-year senior college to absorb graduates of the community colleges. Classes will begin at Pensacola in 1967, and at Orlando a year later. Enrollment, currently 40,000, is expected to rise to 135,500 by 1975. A system of closed-circuit TV education, aimed at supplying graduate courses to scientists such as those at Cape Kennedy, is in operation at four campuses...