Word: daytona
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cell of your being will be satiated with sun, sand, alcohol and the smell of your fellow sun lovers crammed into that Duster for all those hours. But it will have been worth it--the tan alone would be enough; the frisbee games, margaritas and girl you met in Daytona are extra cheese in the taco...
...pandemonium was not the result of an outbreak of war or the death of a President. It had been caused by Joseph E. Granville, 57, a self-promoting market theorist who lives in a suburb of Daytona Beach. Last Tuesday night Granville sent messages to some 3,000 clients urging them to sell their stocks. Like Babe Ruth pointing to the centerfield bleachers in the 1932 World Series and then slamming a home run to that precise spot, Granville predicted a big stock market tumble last week and then sat back and watched it happen...
...success of the newsletter, however, owes as much to showmanship as scholarship. Granville selected Holly Hill as his home base "because it sticks in people's mind." The city is actually just a suburb of Daytona, but he says, "There is nothing romantic about the words Daytona Beach." He crisscrosses the U.S., annually addressing 200 investment seminars. His 2½-hour lecture is a circus of ventriloquism, juggling and bikini-clad girls. He tosses about biblical exhortations like: "As Matthew says, 'The Eye is the Lamp of the Body!' If my eye is on the right things...
Thomas T. Cobb Daytona Beach...