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Florida is a fabulous place, a low-lying (max. elev. 325 ft.) peninsula full of paradoxes and contrasts, great banality and great excitement. It offers to the observer hurricanes and breathless heat, some of the world's healthiest fish and scrawniest cattle, the unbelievably hard living of the Everglades and the unbelievably soft living of Palm Beach. Every year 2,000,000 visitors drive, ride, sail and fly there to see such divergent sights as the matchless Rubens collection in the Ringling Art Museum at Sarasota, the barbarously gaudy architecture of Hollywood, the...