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Since it opened last October, Disney World has had to increase its staff from 5,500 to more than 10,000. In what used to be swamp country, the Disney Co. has put up two big, convention-oriented hotels with golf course and sailing facilities. The number of motel rooms in the Orlando area has doubled to 8,000 in the past seven months, and current and planned construction will raise the total to 24,000 in the next years. One would-be Orlando homeowner laments that construction of his house has been postponed indefinitely because bigger builders have cornered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REAL ESTATE: Florida's Sunshine State | 5/15/1972 | See Source »

...disassociating the U.S. from the 1954 Geneva Accords and gradually moving in to replace the French and help upset those Accords--all on the false assumption of Communism's monolithic special nature and force of Vietnamese national-communism--a gradually escalating commitment to a historical, political, and logistical swamp that any great power should have known enough to avoid...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thomson: 'No Substitute for Failure' | 5/10/1972 | See Source »

...addition, it was a miserable day at West Point, "We were running on a track that resembled a partially drained swamp." McCurdy said...

Author: By Charles B. Straus, | Title: Cadets Wallop Outmanned Thinclads | 4/24/1972 | See Source »

Interior's most important accomplishments as he sees them: the $156 million federal acquisition of land in Florida's Big Cypress Swamp, addition of 40 million acres of excess federal property to the national park system, new urban-oriented parks like Gateway East and Gateway West, and an end to the use of predator poisons on public lands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Team Player | 4/3/1972 | See Source »

...back home--1 left. While every other headquarters staff in the city was working double-time in that final push before the voters went to the polls, Hartke's workers were spring cleaning. I reentered the maze and after five minutes found my way back to the swamp and out the back door...

Author: By M. DEACON Dake, | Title: Vance Hartke: South Indiana Boy | 3/15/1972 | See Source »

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