Word: floridians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism." That is a favorite aphorism of Congressman Claude Pepper, the fiery Floridian who, at 76, is as oratorically opulent as he was four decades ago as a radical New Deal Senator. Democrat Pepper's latest crusade, gingered up by senior citizens' groups like the Gray Panthers, is aimed at halting what he views as discrimination because of age. His argument, delivered in his trademark soapbox-preacher style: "Mandatory retirement arbitrarily severs productive persons from their livelihood, squanders their talent, scars their health, strains an already overburdened Social Security system...
...notably, several cheap-Jack old-folks' dwellings built in the Florida Keys. John D. MacDonald, author of the Travis McGee thrillers, does not include his detective hero in this large, motley cast. Pity, McGee's cynicism disguises the passion of an exasperated environmentalist. His mesomorphic Floridian would have collared the dredgers and developers, and punched the crooked county commissioners in the chops...
...swine-flu shots at an Allegheny County clinic on Pittsburgh's south side. Within six hours all three were dead, apparently of heart or lung problems. Soon similar reports were coming in from other parts of the country. Half a day after getting his flu shot, an elderly Floridian collapsed in a bowling alley and died. In Michigan, three aged people succumbed. Two similar deaths occurred in Tennessee. By midweek, 35 people-most of them elderly-had died after receiving swine-flu shots...
Died. The Rev. Toby Crosby, 122, evangelist minister of the Church of Our Lord of the Apostolic Faith; in Palatka, Fla. Born a slave, last year Crosby was recognized by a society of centenarians as the second oldest American-after 133-year-old fellow Floridian Charlie Smith...
...goose eggs on the Crimson at key spots. Denise Thal got friend at number one by the gifted Sue Graham, 6-0, 6-1. Sally Roberts at the second spot wiped the eggs off her face from a 6-0 defeat in the first set and her her opponent, Floridian Karen Feldman, 3-2 in the second set before narrowly losing the sixth game and three thereafter for a 3-6 defeat...