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needed. The snorkeling trip was lots of fun, and on the way back all the girls werefooling around, putting their tops on the guys. Roberta grabbed John's arm andwhispered, "If you don't do something with this girl, I'll never talk to you again!"John Harris suppressed his shyness at that point. "I finally put my arm around thegirl," he later recalled. "She said 'Can I talk to you?' We sat down and she broughtup our age difference." It was clear that there was no romance in the offing. "I'dplanned to take her sailing, but I was too embarrassed after that," John later said.Ken got even bolder after Haiti. "He did quite a few things [to find me a woman],"John Harris later said. At one point, Williams asked a waitress at Lake Tahoe,"How would you like to sleep with a rich twenty-year-old?"Probably the worst of all happened at a bachelor party they threw for an On-Lineemployee. Ken had hired two strippers. The party was held at the office, and it wasindicative of the freewheeling, anything-goes spirit in Ken's company. Peopleimbibed heavily; somebody started a game where you would try to look the otherway and throw beer bottles into a far cubicle. The office became covered withbroken glass, and the next day almost everyone at the party woke up with cuts andbruises.John liked the looks of one of the strippers. "She was unbelievably gorgeous," herecalled. She seemed shy to John, and confessed to him that until a couple of weeksback she'd been a secretary, and was doing this because the money was so good.She danced right around John Harris, at one point taking her bra off and draping itaround his head."I want to talk to you," Ken said, taking John aside. "I'm being perfectly honest.This is what she said 'He's really cute.'"John just listened."I told her you make three hundred thousand dollars a year. She asked if you weremarried."Ken was not being totally forthright. He had made a deal with the woman to havesex with John Harris. Ken arranged it all, telling John she would be at the ChezParee in Fresno, and John got all dressed up to see her. Ken went along. John andthe woman retreated to a rear table. Ken told John he'd buy them drinks, but all shewanted was Seven-Up. Ken bought the couple a bottle of Seven-Up. "The bottleswere expensive," John later recalled. "Twenty dollars a bottle." It was the first ofmany bottles of twenty-dollar Seven-Ups. "I was totally entranced by this girl. She