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...fares have encouraged people to take excursions they would not have thought about in the past: a weekend jaunt to Florida, a crosscountry journey to a grandchild's graduation or a day trip to one of State U.'s road games. Buddy Yorke, a construction worker in Flagler Beach, Fla., has since August made four trips on People from Jacksonville to Newark to visit friends in nearby Roselle, N.J., where he grew up. Each time, he then flew from Newark to Buffalo on People to visit his girlfriend. Says Yorke: "I wasn't an avid traveler...
...patterned after Rome's Villa Medici. The interior is a riot of tapestries, Renaissance paintings, marble and lush gardens. Until recently, guests who returned year after year to enjoy the grandeur were mostly older. "This was not a resort that was historically family friendly," admits Paul Leone, president of Flagler System, the private, family-run company that has always owned the Breakers. "Back in the '20s, for example, the scene was very formal--the men in black tie." In the mid-'90s, management reached out to younger guests, visitors who expected spas and activities for all family members...
...late 19th century, Henry Morrison Flagler and a few other characters of the Gilded Age decided that the harsh northern winters were severely cutting into their ability to oppress the northern masses year-round. Wearing all that wool, how could they be expected to exploit workers? Settling temporarily in northern Florida, Flagler and Co. moved farther south, eventually stumbling upon the small Barrier Island of Palm Beach. One hundred years later the island of Palm Beach is still where the mega-rich go to escape the grind of winter life in East Egg. Easily bored, they have gone...
...season started off sunnily. Harvard avoided March in New England by playing its first 11 games in Florida and South Carolina against the likes of Flagler, Wofford and Limestone...
...Flagler and her mother, Helen Lord, are eating a late lunch together at the McDonald's on the rotary. Their conversation revolves around tableware, although their voices are often muffled by the birthday party of small children in the next room. Flagler works in special education at a public school in Keane, near her home in Richmond, N.H., just outside Keane. She describes her mother, a resident of Vermont, as a "dyed-in-the-wool Republican," although Lord says she will not vote for Bob Dole because the senator...