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...some 130 U.S. nudist camps are emerging from their traditional reclusion. "We've decided to come out of the woodwork and operate competitive recreational facilities rather than cults or philosophical retreats," Johnston explains. "We're inviting the public to come visit us just as they would visit Disney World...
SLOGGING through the Everglades, posing with Mickey Mouse at Disney World or buzzing the beaches along the keys, presidential candidates are seeking out the voters of Florida and finding them mainly skeptical, grumpy, worried and wary. Aggressively conservative and proudly Southern despite its many refugees from the North, Florida may not reside at the political center of the U.S., but the morose attitude of its citizens toward problems and politics in this election year may well be typical. If so, the American voter is going to prove a prickly-prize for the politicians to grasp...
...Ybor City seek more space for the local zoo. Residents of Pompano Beach are aroused by a report that a school principal died from an overdose of heroin and those in Broward County by the arrest of a teacher for selling marijuana. In Leesburg, employers are mad at Disney World for paying wages above the prevailing scale. In Jacksonville, Mayor Hans Tanzler dismisses the complaints of environmentalists, whiffs his city's foul air and declares: "That smell means jobs...
...Dealing is simple cops and robbers, the kind of material that would even look tired and trite on TV. There is even one sequence--Peter and John sneaking into the proverbial abandoned warehouse to recover the stolen dope--that could be confused with the bland outpourings of the Disney factory. A parody of the Hardy Boys, one member of the premiere audience hollered out, leaving the rest of the audience to wonder if the parody was intended...
Lucky Matthias! Papa Willy Brandt, Chancellor of West Germany, was finally finished with those earnest confabulations with President Nixon and had taken him to the brand-new Disney World at Orlando, Fla., where Mickey Mouse himself turned out to show him around. Forty-four-year-old Mickey (enacted by a Disney employee) and ten-year-old Matthias, in a T shirt decorated with a big, stars-and-stripes "USA," walked around hand in hand, moving diplomacy into a new dimension...