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Whites at Bay. As last week began, Negroes staged their usual march to the beach. This time things were different. State troopers, part of a 230-man contingent ordered into the city by Florida's Governor Farris Bryant, waded into the water with the demonstrators, formed a ring around them and kept angry whites at bay with police dogs. That night, the Negroes marched on the Slave Market. Whites were waiting, but again the troopers kept the peace...
...Lyndon B. (Lady Bird) Johnson, President Pusey, and President Emeritus James Bryant Conant '14 will be the speakers at three major Commencement Week events today...
Born. To Anita Bryant, 24, recording star (Until There Was You), singing sidekick to Bob Hope in four U.S.O. Christmas tours, and Disk Jockey Robert Green, 33: a daughter; in Miami...
Before John Hammer was thrown out of office as chairman of the Florida Turnpike Authority, he sent a complaining letter to Governor Farris Bryant. It concerned a reporter for the St. Petersburg Times, Martin Oliver Waldron, 39, who, said Hammer, had been "rude, discourteous, ungentlemanly, and roared at my employees." No one from the governor on down could challenge the accuracy of that description-or wonder why Hammer should be so annoyed. For it was the rude, discourteous, ungentlemanly and roaring reporter from the Times who cost John Hammer...
While Waldron was working on this suspicion, a tipster called from Tampa -collect-and invited him down. There he learned something about the extravagant tastes of John Hammer, Governor Bryant's appointee as Turnpike Authority chairman. While on the job, Hammer stayed at a $65-a-day hotel room, paid as much as $30 a day to eat, and put corsages for his secretary on the tab. He chartered a plane, and charged taxpayers for more hours aloft than the plane was actually flown. Under Hammer's loose hand, headlined the Times, a $100 million road had stretched...