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Despite the danger, some Floridians greeted the storm with abandon, holding hurricane parties in Miami, Key West and other resorts. Part of the come-what-may attitude may have been a result of the complacency that civil defense' officials say has grown in the 14 years since southern Florida's last major hurricane, in 1965. In coastal Dade County, the population has increased almost 55% since then, and an estimated 80% of the 1.7 million residents have never lived through a big storm...
Boston voters, however many of them will abandon the Red Sox and bother to vote, will elect a new mayor sometime in November. A field of six--only four of whom really count--will be winnowed down to a pair on September 25, when voters will go the polls for the preliminary elections...
...soon married a beautiful heiress named Edwina Ashley. By World War II he was a captain in command of a destroyer flotilla; the fearless skipper's own ship, H.M.S. Kelly, was mined off Newcastle, torpedoed off the German coast and finally sunk by German dive bombers off Crete. "Abandon ship or I'm going to sink you!" his admiral signaled when he refused to leave his bridge at one time. "Try it and I'll bloody well sink you!" Mountbatten replied. Mountbatten's later direction of the disastrous commando raid on Dieppe also contributed...
...Chief Mike Dann predicts that ABC will once again sweep the Nielsens, winning 28 of prime time's 44 weekly half-hours, with CBS taking twelve and NBC four. Should this prognosis prove accurate -and it probably will-the losing networks will be reshuffling their programs with mad abandon by Thanksgiving, if not before...
...flying off to the Middle East, under strict, sealed instructions signed by Carter, to explain this plan to Israel's Premier Menachem Begin and Egypt's President Anwar Sadat. Finding them both strongly opposed, Strauss then flew home and convinced Vance and Brzezinski that the U.S. should abandon the resolution...