Super Bowl Weekend Brings Cash, Chaos to Miami Beach
Southeast Florida endures traffic jams and theft worries as $50 to $70 million pours into the Gold Coast during Super Bowl week. Hotels demand multi night stays, crowds surge, flights increase, and security tightens while buyers rush for last minute tickets and high end packages. Private planes, VIP events, and a yacht package highlight the scale of spending.
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UPI
Florida
Gold Coast
Collins Avenue
Miami Beach
Lester Freeman
Greater Miami
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Pittsburgh Steelers
Eastern Airlines
Pittsburgh
Bob
Bunny Bickel
Pompano Beach
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Grand Turk Island
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Miami News
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Buffalo
Miami Dolphin
Rick Olson
Olson
Security, staffing crowd control for Orange Bowl game
Police prepared for all outcomes with a SWAT strike force and officers staffing the Orange Bowl. Security chief Cosgrove warns terrorism will come, while 130 off duty officers will handle traffic and crowd duties, costing over ten thousand dollars. Team bus drivers describe the game week as thrilling and fun.
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Cosgrove
Harry Bouterse
Ron Monreal
Bouterse
Launch on warning plan urged by U.S. arms expert
Washington AP reports Dr. Harold Agnew, retiring Los Alamos director, urging a launch on warning policy so the president could fire an immediate nuclear strike if Soviet missiles head toward U.S. targets. Defense officials note U.S. weapons are designed to absorb a surprise attack and retaliate.
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Soviet Union
U.S
Harold Agnew
Los Alamos Laboratory
New Mexico
Defense Department
Air lines may carry 300 million passengers in 1979
Paul R. Ignatius president of the Air Transport Association told an airline industry forum in Kansas City that scheduled U S airlines could carry 300 million passengers in 1979 up from about 49 million twenty years ago if the economy remains strong.
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Paul R. Ignatius
Air Transport Association
Ignatius
U.S
Theaters Schedule and Notable Birthdays Today
Saturday listings include Roosevelt Royale with Jacques Brel at 8 30, Iowa showings of Every Which Way But Loose at 1 45 3 50 5 55 8 10, Pinocchio at 1 3 5 7 9, Moment by Moment at 1 30 3 30 5 30 7 30 9 30, Plaza Superman at 1 30 4 7 30 10, Stage 1 Oliver's Story at 2 40 4 35 7 40 9 35, Stage 2 Lord of the Rings at 2 30 4 55 7 30 9 55, Stage 3 California Suite at 2 45 4 45 7 45 9 45, Stage 4 King of the Gypsies at 2 35 4 45 7 35 9 45, Eastown I The Mouse and His Child at 2 3 30 5 05 and National Lampoon's Animal House at 7 40 9 35, Eastown II The Invasion of the Body Snatchers at 1 45 3 45 5 50 7 55 10. Today entertainer George Burns is 83 and actress Patricia Neal is 53.
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Paris
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Animal House
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