Word: raton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...Florida Atlantic University, a state school built amidst the grass-grown runways of an old bomber base in Boca Raton, will take juniors, seniors and graduate students to absorb part of the overflow from Florida's spate of new junior colleges. The latest electronic teaching aids-including closed-circuit television in every room and study cubicle, as well as a computer-controlled library and information-processing operation-are part of its Learning Resources Center...
...takes travelers most briskly from Denver to Albuquerque, but at Raton, U.S. 64 offers a detour into Taos for a look at the Pueblo cliff homes, which were America's first apartment houses, then jogs on down the Rio Grande Canyon to Santa Fe. Colorado's Million-Dollar Highway, a 23-mile stretch along U.S. 550, skirts Mt. Wilson past plunging canyons, leaping waterfalls, and the reproachful nostalgia of abandoned mining camps...
From Bermuda to Barbados and back again to Boca Raton, ladies will wrap pullovers about them to hide the suit that never got wet or to match the short shorts (Bermudas are now for bicycling only) that came with the outfit. They may still have one in jersey left over from last summer but, more likely they will follow the trend to offbeat fabrics ranging all the way from suede to satin. An occasional girl will turn up in a plain old vanilla terry-cloth jacket or playsuit, but most of her fellow travelers will sport the same fabric colored...
Such enthusiasm convinced the visitors that Milwaukee is the hope of polo. "Milwaukee's great," said Boca Raton's nine-goal Star Billy Mayer.* "It shows you what can be done. There's a lot of incentive to play harder before a crowd this size and this democratic...