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...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...
...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...