Florida Out of the Picture in California Coastal Shot

--In a promotional campaign touting Florida as a one-of-a-kind location, the state Division of Economic Development printed a poster showing an idyllic scene of a pier, sailboat and sunset and sent it to thousands of businesses, lauding the Florida coast as picture perfect. Only the picture wasn’t so perfect: It was shot in Manhattan Beach, Calif. “Obviously it’s embarrassing,” said division director Steve Mayberry. “We intended for this to be a Florida shot.” The error came about when the state, in an attempt to save money, used an advertising agency’s stock photo instead of hiring a photographer, Mayberry said. “They changed account executives and somewhere in the process we didn’t make sure that this picture was taken in Florida,” Mayberry said. The idea of the poster was to “keep our name before these corporate executives to let them know that one of the advantages we have here in Florida is gorgeous weather and a gorgeous life style,” he said.

--Four summits later, President Reagan still doesn’t know just what Mikhail S. Gorbachev believes on the subject of God, but the Soviet leader did have a Christian baptism, Reagan told the Daily Telegraph of London in a White House interview. “I’ve never had the opportunity to discuss that with him or to know whether he is or not” a believer, the President was quoted as saying. Reagan did say that according to what he has read, Gorbachev comes from a religious family and was baptized at the insistence of his mother, Maria Panteleyevna, the newspaper said. She still attends Russian Orthodox services in Gorbachev’s home village of Privolnoye, the newspaper said.

--The woman they nicknamed “Lady Lindy” was remembered with reverence and a dollop of affection at a gathering in Atchison, Kan., of women aviators. It was on June 17, 1928, that the 29-year-old Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic as a passenger. About 350 people attended the weekend meeting sponsored by the Ninety Nines, the group started by Earhart in 1929 with 99 members. In Earhart’s Kansas birthplace they heard such speakers as Jeana Yeager, co-pilot of the record-breaking Voyager flight that traveled around the world nonstop in 1986. And they remembered Earhart. “She felt that a person could set her mind to do anything she wanted to do,” said Nancy Hopkins Tier, president of the Women’s International Air and Space Museum in Dayton, Ohio, who knew Earhart. Earhart vanished in 1937 while attempting to become the first person to fly around the world at the Equator.