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Flashing a beatific smile, the soft-spoken Moss promoted his idea to newsmen. Paeans to Freelandia appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and Newsweek. By November, the exposure had attracted 2,000 members. Moss had leased a used DC-8 from National Airlines and, with certification from the Federal Aviation Administration, the club was offering flights across the country, to Honolulu and even to Europe...
Daily Alibis. There were early signs of trouble in Freelandia. Employees grumbled about mismanagement, and 85% of the flights were canceled. Nonetheless, in late November, Moss landed a guest spot on the Johnny Carson show, after which membership jumped...
...line continued to slide, and in February, Moss slipped an interesting item into the club newsletter: while Freelandia was nonprofit, it said, a Moss-controlled company called Transmar was not. In fact, Transmar was leasing Freelandia the DC-8 as well as providing management services for a fee. More disgruntled employees complained of having to invent daily alibis for club members who demanded refunds for canceled flights. Aggrieved members could be repaid only when cash came in from sales of tickets for future flights, and the amounts owed piled higher and higher. Though 45 coast-to-coast flights were made...
Amorous couples retired to a lavatory and to the water bed, under the blanket of which various friendly acts-were discreetly performed. "Is everybody mellowed out?" purred Darcy Flynn, Moss's girl friend and business partner...
...Moss had arranged to put most of the passengers up at Geneva's staid and very luxe Beau-Rivage, but the hotel's manager, Roland Cirafici, 45, was so shocked by the crowd that he refused to accept Moss's prearranged credit, and police briefly delayed the DC-8 just before it was ready to take off. On board with his wife and their son America, Pop Revolutionary Abbie Hoffman moaned, "If I don't get back to Chicago on time, I'll be in contempt of court again...