Word: vero
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...PELLETIER Vero Beach...
...cornered the entire supply of concrete block. Orange growers and ranchers who bought land before the current real estate boom have become newly rich. Property on the highway in sleepy Sebring, which is 90 miles south of Orlando, has jumped to $25,000 an acre. A motel owner in Vero Beach, 102 miles away, recently paid $150,000 for one-third of an acre fronting on the Atlantic...
...Skinner, manager of Vero Beach's Driftwood Inn, has a happy complaint: "Our business is up 20% from last year, and our rear ends are really dragging." Miami Beach's Hotel Fontainebleau posted a record 90% occupancy rate from November through April. This month it has booked an unprecedented five conventions-each taking up 1,000 rooms-and recently it turned down a booking for October 1977-because all rooms are already sold out. Earlier this year some hoteliers overbooked so egregiously that they had to turn away irate tourists who had confirmed reservations. In February, 150 people...
...confuse the issue and thinks that, at the very least, he will be able to protect the boy from the angry crowd. Scherbaum refuses sadly. "You're over thirty," he observes. "All you care about is limiting the damage." "Watch yourself, Flip," advises Scherbaum's politicized girl friend Vero, who wants to see her lions eat her Christians, or vice versa. "Mao warns us against the motley intellectuals...