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Accountant Ed Kraujalis and his wife Mildred, both 27, left New York City a year ago for Cape Coral, Fla., a community that did not exist in 1960 and still does not show on most maps. Now it has 24,000 inhabitants. The Kraujalises paid $4,500 for a lot on a canal and have started work on a $33,000 house. Terms: 20% down and a 6.5% mortgage. "It would have cost twice that to build the same house in New York City," says Kraujalis. So many other people have discovered Cape Coral and nearby communities that the Fort...
...that the Nazca artists executed the drawings by first sketching them on small plots of land, then used a complex system of strings and central piles of rock to make large-sized "blowups" (TIME, March 25, 1974). Members of the International Explorers Society, a travel-oriented organization based in Coral Gables, Fla., have another explanation. They believe that the Nazcas laid out their remarkable figures while being guided by observers hovering above them in a hot-air balloon. In an attempt to prove their point, I.E.S. members last month flew a crude balloon over the figures...
...When Jakachū painted the arrogant feathers of a cock's ruff, each sharp quill imbued with fiery distinctness, he could give them the vitality of a Van Gogh sunflower. His range of notation, the "handwriting" that constitutes larger shapes, was astounding-as a scroll of shells and coral branches, stranded on a tidal beach among outrunning threads of water, attests. The aim of such work was encyclopedic; Jakachū wanted to give a complete account of known biological fact, and he was the most "scientific" artist Japan produced in the 18th century...
...cities bulge with imaginative and very specific detail: Chloe is peopled by "a girl twirling a parasol on her shoulder," "a woman in black, showing her full age, her eyes restless beneath her veil, her lips trembling," "a young man with white hair," and "two girls, twins, dressed in coral." In Eusapia, a city of the dead...
Every island is fringed with mazes of coral, red and brown under the gin-clear water. The current in the channels is fast, and the wrong combination of tide and wind can raise a lumpy seven-foot sea. Yet no great crises occur: the snorkeling on the coral (especially in the Tobago Cays, an underwater reserve) is among the best in the Caribbean; jack and pompano bite in the shallows, the sun shines all day and plops into the ocean with a green flash straight out of a tourist leaflet; and on island after island the beaches are empty...