Word: floridians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Drawing parallels between Ted Bundy--a Floridian accused of murdering 26 women and whose folk hero status is celebrated in T-shirts and songs--and Ted Kennedy, who Morgan says has not yet offered a sufficient explanation of Mary Jo Kopechne's death at Chappaquiddick, Morgan warned, "Trust not ye the right or the left on any issue in which women's lives are at stake...
...mile per passenger. Among the trains that will survive: the New York-New Orleans Southern Crescent, considered the best passenger train in the nation; the Washington-Montreal Montrealer; and one of the two trains running between New York and Florida. Those likely to be dropped: the Chicago-Miami Floridian, the New York-Kansas City National Limited, the Chicago-Seattle North Coast Hiawatha. Since the Senate bill resembles the one passed by the House, the Administration will probably grudgingly go along with the more limited cutback...
...Flagler campus has been Harvard's Spring retreat for the past few seasons and is one of those ultra-Floridian places where academics take a back seat to golf. The campus, as Fitzgibbons explains, "used to be a resort hotel, and the attitude hasn't really changed that much...
...despite the late-set breakdown, Goolagong, who has been playing with pain killer deadening the effects of an injured left ankle, came back even stronger in the next set, capitalizing on a string of uncharacteristic, unforced Evert errors. The Floridian's usually flawless groundstrokes fell to pieces as the afternoon progressed, and she missed consistently on attempts to pass Goolagong with down-the-line forehands...
...things ensured the success of the effort: the hostile treatment of Begin by much of the American press, and Jimmy Carter's seeming tilt toward the Arabs starting last spring. Explains Leo Mindlin, associate editor of the Miami-based Jewish Floridian: "There has been a closing of the ranks because American Jews are horrified at the prospect of a series of one-sided compromises in which the Israelis will pay." With their acute sense of survival-a sense developed in the ghettos of the Diaspora and the horrors of the Holocaust-most U.S. Jews regard that threat...