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...limited available housing has resulted in scenes reminiscent of the Oklahoma land rush. The surge in sales is causing a boom in construction, attracting speculators, and hiking prices to levels that are unrealistically high, even for the normally inflated real estate market in Southern California. Says Frank Carr, executive vice president of W.R. Grace Properties, Inc., a land-developing arm of W.R. Grace & Co.: "I've never seen anything like it. You have to call it hysteria...
Says Oscar Carr Jr., who left his prosperous Mississippi farm to head the office of development of the national Episcopal Church in New York: "The greatest thing the South can offer the nation is its religious and moral sense. Once Southerners can jump into the economic mainstream they will be more liberal than people in Connecticut...
...having to take "sort of the Anita Loos approach" to society. "You ask the great big man what he's interested in." At its best, this politeness produces the immensely attractive surface of Southern life. At its worst, it produces an ingrained falseness and bottled-up anger. Billie Carr, a Memphis-born clinical psychiatric counselor, says, "I was raised to hide myself. I was used to being two people...
...Richard Carr...
...might, however, Carr remained a 310-lb. flop on the social circuit. As his old friend and sometime business partner, ex-Actor Roger Smith (Ann-Margret's husband), puts it, "He was just not pleasant to look at." On Smith's advice, Carr underwent an operation that tied off 18 ft. of intestines and helped to pare his 5-ft. 7-in. frame to a relatively sylphlike...