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...PLACE. Florida isn't just Miami, for all of you misguided Long Islanders. In fact, most of the action--without the crushing crowds--can be found at points north, from Fort Lauderdale up to Pensacola. But there's no need to tie yourself down just because you have an eight-day, seven-night package deal at The Seaward, just ten feet from the sand in Lauderdale. Hop in the car and see the state. Remember--booze and the opposite sex can be found everywhere. Be inventive...
...Drew quickly surfaces. In two issues last fall, her coverage of the presidential campaign ran on each time through more than 25 New Yorker pages. Another article, threading its way through the usual glossy ads (as exemplified by the fox jacket for $6,795 at Bloomingdale's, the eight-day chronometer for $17,350 at Tiffany), stretched for 59 interminable New Yorker pages. Drew was allowed to indulge in that slackest kind of writing, the day-by-day journal. Anyone not intensely interested in politics could hardly be expected to go the distance...
...profit two years out of five, but in the years when it loses money, the losses, including interest payments, insurance and upkeep, are deductible from Flynn's regular income. The IRS still permits him to use the sloop 10% of the time, and Flynn took an inexpensive eight-day cruise in the U.S. and British Virgin Islands last...
...face was drawn and pale, and he could not even muster the energy to smile as he emerged from Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base near Washington last week. Jimmy Carter was physically exhausted from the rigors of his eight-day, 10,500-mile tour of Europe, and he was headed for a long weekend of rest at Camp David to prepare for a campaign swing through California this week. But just as clearly, he was also elated. The President was home from his ninth and probably his most successful summit with U.S. allies. The two days...
...avalanche of mismanagement still follows on Carter's heels and could engulf us any moment. But his eight-day display of determination and adroit maneuver has added a lustrous footnote to the pages of his thin volume of leadership success. Nothing more, or less...