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Show No sympathy after exhausting vacation g , ..... L i f,m..r ;.nl the World outdoor pool near thP c.i. r.u the editor's column outdoor pool near the Pol,, Lhv, Resort Hotel where they up for our stay. 'f And they still didn't swy impressed or very s.j 0be when I told them how tired i Lwed1 because we had to get upsoa.-r fly back Sunday. j' No one seemed to carety f feet hurt from walking all oVi.! Magic Kingdom and the Center, or that my stomacha l a little troubled becaus V overindulging in seafood and ;, goodies. f No one offered to helpT ; mail. Or said I could go home at, I rest up. Or anything at all like that, j You know, sometimes pwptl y pretty hard to figure out. I Anyway, Im just going If talking about it. I'll write a q about the Epcot Center lot Recreation Guide, but other I that, my lips are sealed. 1 I'll just save it all for the.. time slide show I have planned : s the pictures are developed. ought to make them apprettM" experience a little more. tpti You'd think people would be a little more understanding about these kinds of things. I mean, all I did was take a couple of days off. and you'd think everyone was angry with me. Kven the mail had been piled on my desk with a certain amount of malice so that if you pulled the wrong letter from the pile, the whole thing would come crashing to the floor. There was a lot of tension when I walked into the office Monday wearing my Donald Duck hat and a goofy smile. Someone said that was real Mickey Mouse of me. And it didn't get any better. And why? All I had done was spend a few days out of the office - way out. Like Florida. And the way everyone around here acted when we got back you'd think they were envious or something. In all that mail I found a note from the publisher naming himself the new travel editor. Dorothy and Betty and JoAnn were all mad because I didn't leave a number where they could reach me on Friday to work out a minor 01 me rpv-m - Showcase. where they have recreated 10 foreign countries with immaculate detail. I explained how the resort's publicity people had planned for every contingency. For example, Saturday afternoon about MX) of us had gathered in a recreated city block in the Disney-MGM studios under construction behind the Epcot Center to eat one more buffet lunch and look at models of upcoming Walt Disney World attractions. After lunch, we were looking at the models and participating in some mock screen tests when it started to sprinkle. And suddenly from out of nowhere our hosts produced 600 umbrellas to keep us dry. That's planning. I told them about seeing the premiere of UlumiNations, a new laser, light and fireworks show the Disney people unveiled Saturday night. I talked about the parties, and the souvenirs that appeared in our room every night when we were out to dinner. I told them how I'd gone swimming swim-ming Saturday afternoon in the By MARC HADDOCK computer problem. And it didn't get any better, even though I tried to make them all enjoy the Walt Disney World-sponsored World-sponsored four-day trip. After all, I was just one of hundreds of editors invited to the affair. It was nothing special. So I told them about the meals in delectable detail. I described the sights and sounds |