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Some of the measures were hardly of earth-shattering importance. In Dade County, Fla., a ban on throwaway bottles and cans, favored by environmentalists, was rejected by the voters, while in nearby Cocoa Beach topless bathing was outlawed. South Carolinians regularized the hours of the state's liquor stores, Arkansans spurned an attempt by bankers and businessmen to give the state legislature control over interest rates, and, in the year's biggest victory for Fundamentalism, the citizens of Rush Springs, Okla. (pop. 1,381), decided to outlaw dancing in public. Other proposals and the voters' decisions were...
...some places the ratio between men and women problem drinkers is already equal. For example, in Florida's Dade County (pop. 1,385,000), authorities estimate that there are 78,000 alcoholics-and almost half are women. At the Women's Alcohol Education Center in South West Miami, patients can relax in a pool or on a patio and their kids can play in a garage full of toys and live animals. The center is open from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m., and has a daily average of 18 women visitors...
Such earnest digging has also borne fruit in CHNS local stories. Matthews filed an item for papers in Pennsylvania revealing that a reporter for the Scranton Tribune also earned $5,000 a year as a "public relations assistant" to Pennsylvania Representative Joseph Mc-Dade. The Tribune accepted its employee's moonlighting calmly, but McDade sniped that the CHNS disclosure was "the worst story I've seen in ten years...
...defense, Brown has been hurt by problems at goalie. Paul Nearly last year's starter is leading the league with a 75 average but transfer Mike Hamden from Miami Dade Junior College, who was counted on to start, has been hurt much of the season...
...expected to rise still higher this year. Condominium apartments are by far the most popular type of new building; for prices ranging from $12,000 to $125,000, owners often get such extras as pools, saunas and tennis courts. One of the thickest concentrations of condominiums is in Dade County, which includes Miami and Key Biscayne, vacation home of the nation's No. 1 tourist, but they have also spread fast in central Florida and many other areas...