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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...visit the area. Flagler laughed; nobody would want to go that far south, he said. Then came the frost of 1896 that destroyed most of Florida's orange crop. The frost didn't reach Fort Dallas, however, and Tuttle saw her chance. She plucked some orange blossoms off a tree in the yard of her hotel and sent them to Flagler. He was impressed. He brought the railroad to Fort Dallas, and as Tuttle had predicted, the tourists followed. In swarms...
...client for its bottled Natural Seltzer Water. Reads the back of the label: "An excellent water for all house-plants." In a chorus of ads on Midwestern television and radio stations, Canfield proclaims the wonders of Natural Seltzer when administered to a patient like that limping rubber tree in the corner. Rhapsodizes Vice President Alan Canfield Jr.: "When you water plants with our product, you're giving them food and you're giving their soil a new lease on life...
...Kiev, both Jewish and Ukrainian activists have been severely beaten by KGB agents. In one celebrated case last year, witnesses say they saw two men force a popular Ukrainian nationalist composer, Volodymyr Ivasiuk, 31, into a KGB car. Three weeks later his body was found hanging from a tree; his eyes had been gouged out. Such acts of brutality-still rare but apparently on the increase-are strictly illegal. The KGB, however, remains capable of acting as a law unto itself...
...Savage, 54, who defied the city's once invincible Democratic political machine to win a primary fight and thus ensure his election in November, symbolizes black progress in Chicago. So does his neighborhood. Ten years ago it was 60% white; now it is 85% black. Some of its tree-lined streets run past houses selling for $125,000 or more. Most of the residents have completed at least 13 years of schooling. Boasts Savage: "That's higher than for whites in this city...
...rocked the Begin cabinet with his resignation, the former air force commander watched with moistened eyes as an honor guard saluted him, and later said farewell to the tearful officers of his general staff.Afterward, in the shade of a jacaranda tree in his suburban Tel Aviv garden, he discussed his reasons for resigning and his future political prospects in an interview with TIME Jerusalem Bureau Chief Dean Fischer. Excerpts...