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Show 57, Jeffries, Islamorada in, cause after supper we going to Florida with Anita Bryant.' The free lunch. While the hungry guests-those unwitting land barons, cheerful to buy long on quarter-acre tracts-worked at their cube steaks, their hosts picked at the personal data sheets that listed address, phone and 'Amount that you can save each month.' And by sherbet-time the hosts had sorted or qualified their people and the pitchin' started: 'Well Mr. Woolie,' and here the sales technique was to nod, bow, nod that head like that perpetual-motion water-sipping bird in the old barbershops, 'Mr. Woolie does our plan make sense to you?' The tenth time Dory saw the promotional film he was ready to buy. He was developing an attachment to the young Anita Bryant. Who, the film suggested, would live on a neighboring property. And be available for cook-outs. The old Miss America sang her hit, My Little Corner of the World, and had the barbecue scenario with her family in this Fresh Start Country, and he watched for the little orange-birds in the groves. Anita talked about Diamond's father's company, Selling Florida, and how it was even being traded on the Quebec Stock Exchange. |