Until this summer, hustling Tampa was cornering new industries and jobs at one of the fastest paces in Florida. Last week the palmy west coast metropolis was deep in economic crisis: its small businessmen moaned about the lack of business, its big stores drew slim responses from their ads, and payrolls were down by at least $1,000,000 a month. The six counties around Tampa are suffering from a strike against the General Telephone Co. of Florida a strike with a bitter difference. In a wave of vandalism and sabotage unmatched in Florida's history, the 356,000 telephone subscribers in the area...
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