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...well through movies, television and popular music. Well-traveled but speaking little English, the group had paid 10,400 francs each ($2,400) to tour all the sights the French insist on seeing: New York City, Niagara Falls, San Francisco, Los Angeles, the Grand Canyon, Las Vegas, New Orleans, Disney World in Orlando, and Washington...
...resort needs a helping hand. It has lost many vacationers to the Caribbean islands and to attractions like Walt Disney World in central Florida. Many of the old hotels are barely surviving; many shops have shut their doors. Where young people once cha-chaed through the night, now the elderly struggle to survive on their Social Security checks...
...eight counties, including Miami's Bade, an odd-even plan was announced for sales. In a state depending heavily on tourism, Florida energy officials used their 5% emergency supplies to ease the shortage. About 50,000 extra gallons were allocated to the gas station at Orlando's Disney World and 25,000 to nearby Sea World. Insisted Deputy Energy Director Jim Pollock: "We're certainly not trying to show any partiality, but these are major tourist attractions and we're letting them have this to keep motorists from getting stranded...
ENCHANTING is an adjective usually reserved for miniature music boxes and grand-children. When used in reference to movies, one expects either Walt Disney or a charming but minor story of middle-aged love, a la Frank Gilroy's Once in Paris. But Francois Truffaut's new film Love on the Run is undeniably enchanting. In fact, it's perfect. Truffaut has created a flawless film which not only belongs to the genre of french romantic comedy, but which will be the yardstick other such films are measured against...
...related, at times to the seventh cousin once removed, to John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Franklin Pierce, Chester A. Arthur, Grover Cleveland, Herbert Hoover, Richard M. Nixon, Gerald Ford and an eclectic lot of non-Presidents including John Foster Dulles, George Gallup, Aaron Burr, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Walt Disney and Humphrey Bogart. Though the Church News makes no mention of it, Kimball can boast such a fruitful family tree largely because his grandfather, in the polygamous old days, had 45 wives...