Word: tampa
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Dazed Florida politicians decided on two possible explanations for the upset: 1) the five contenders were listed on the ballot in alphabetical order, with Johnson first, and a lot of voters just settled for the top name; 2) many a voter confused "Bob Johnson" with a popular Tampa city judge of the same name...
...uncle's Great Parker Pony Circus, had his own pony-and-monkey act when he was in his teens. Barker, merry-go-round operator, candied-apple dipper, ice shaver for snow cones and general man-about-the-midway, he once took a job as a dogcatcher in Tampa, Fla., where he gave away hundreds of puppies to kids...
...leading investment companies. Wall Street's E. F. Hutton & Co. reported that some built up cash and bond holdings, while an equal number took the opposite position, bought heavily in common stocks. There was big buying in American Telephone & Telegraph, International Business Machines, Arkansas Louisiana Gas, Tampa Electric, and Babcock & Wilcox. Selling was heavy in such drug stocks as Chas, Pfizer, Merck, and Parke, Davis, following the unfavorable publicity of the Kefauver hearings...
Maxwell and Florence Rogers were sitting in their kitchen in Tampa. Fla. when a youngster rushed in yelling that the car had fallen on Charles (Mrs. Rogers' son by a former marriage). Husband and wife dashed out to the yard where Charles Trotter, 16, had blocked the front wheels and jacked up the rear of their 1954 Ford Ranch Wagon to work on the universal joints. The bumper jack had slipped, and Charles's right leg was pinned between the car body and the driveshaft...
Most Southern editorial pages simply ignored South Africa. Some took refuge in the obvious: observed the Richmond Times Dispatch, "The attempted assassination of Prime Minister Verwoerd emphasizes once again the explosive nature of South Africa's dilemma." There were a few scattered voices of reason. Inquired the Tampa Tribune: "How could the white supremacists expect the Negroes to submit indefinitely to degradation and oppression in their own land...