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...that, and many new Miamians will be talking about Cleo 14 years hence. It bent palm trees to the ground, crumpled street signs, uprooted shrubs, took gravel right out of roadways. Blowing at 115 m.p.h., Cleo knocked down so many power lines that more than 60,000 telephones in Dade County were without service. At least two dozen fires broke out in Miami, and winds were so high that firemen could not cope with them for hours. At Opa-Locka Airport, a DC-3 was lifted 50 ft. off the ground, flopping helplessly at the end of its ropes...
...Oahu. The union therefore can ram almost any labor legislation through the legislature at the expense of Honolulu's underrepresented businessmen. Dominant farm legislators in Delaware have maintained a law that requires a farmers' market to be situated on a main street of Wilmington. Florida's Dade County (Miami) supplies 25% of the state's gasoline-tax revenue, gets back only 4% of this for highway construction; the county has 1,000,000 people, but not one state-supported park or beach. In many states, four-lane highways connect small, out-of-the-way towns, while...
...family had outgrown his one-bedroom house, and he needed cheap, additional living space for his three children. What he got was a blizzard of bills that have now hit $10,000 and an endless zoning suit that has become the longest in the history of Florida's Dade County. Even worse, he has now been ordered to get rid of the caboose...
...local lawyers and judges about the need for reforms, and to ally with them and other groups in an appeal to voters, over the heads of the politicians. Some or all judges in ten or more states are now appointed by a form of the Missouri Plan. This week Dade County (Miami), Florida, puts the Missouri Plan into effect in its metropolitan court system...
...Last December, a U.S. Court of Appeals finally ruled that Venezuela had grounds for extradition, and Perez Jiménez was clamped in Miami's Dade County jail. Early last week Secretary of State Dean Rusk signed the extradition order, and Venezuelan security men hurried to Miami to take P.J. home. But his talented lawyers still had a few delaying moves left in their briefcases...