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Getting the Word. He chose the wrong mark. Mackle, co-owner with his two brothers of the $65 million Deltona Corp., is acquainted with some of the most influential political figures in the U.S. The FBI agents received orders directly from J. Edgar Hoover, while Florida state police were getting the word from Democratic Senator George Smathers. And Barbara Jane was visited last week by family friend Richard Nixon, who urged her to write a book about the ordeal...
...kidnaped girl belongs to one of Florida's wealthiest families. Her father Robert and his brothers own and run the $65 million Deltona Corp., one of the biggest home-building companies in the U.S. The three brothers are friends of Florida's Senator George Smathers and of President-elect Richard Nixon, and they own the Key Biscayne Hotel where Nixon has often stayed...
Miami-based Deltona Corp. set up an office in Frankfurt in 1963 to tap a market among U.S. servicemen overseas, now finds that sales to Europeans are as high as those to Americans. Europeans have bought $1,250,000 worth of lots at Deltona developments near Daytona Beach and on San Marco Island off Florida's west coast. A Nürnberg accountant named Herman Boeckler grew so enthusiastic after a visit to his lots that he not only bought more property but formed a Deltona Club back home. Even some of Europe's lesser nobility have been...
Chartered Flights. Deltona, headed by Miami's big-building Mackle brothers, also has a flourishing outpost in Hong Kong. Last year it sold more than $1,000,000 worth of land, mostly to Chinese investors. Operating on a still larger scale is Miami's General Development Corp., whose chairman is Charles Kellstadt, ex-chief of Sears, Roebuck, and among whose major stockholders is Publisher Gardner Cowles. It reports $4,000,000-a-year sales of Florida realty to investment-minded Europeans and Latin Americans. The firm sometimes charters flights for foreign prospects, who get a $125 discount...