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...hottest show out of the West, competing with Disneyland and the tinsel of Hollywood. Visitors are flocking to it by the thousands. For sheer suspense it rivals even Hitchcock, continually hinting of ominous new surprises. The sulfurous center of all this attention is Mount St. Helens, site of the largest volcanic explosion in the U.S. in more than 60 years...
...Virginia hills four miles up a rutted road from the nearest highway, 60 Hare Krishnas, who taught themselves to be artisans by trial and error, built an incredible peacock-hued "Palace of Gold." It is the first installment of what the settlement's leader envisions as a "spiritual Disneyland where people can come and be amazed." Amazed was one word for the 15,000 disciples and tourists attending the Labor Day weekend "grand opening." The festival also marked Janmastami, birthday of the Lord Krishna, who is the object of the movement's ceaseless chanted devotions...
What began after one war ended with another. Travel writers were gradually; displaced by foreign correspondents, exotica gave way to political realities. Fussel likes to sound crotchety about the inferior modern substitute for travel, but he knows it is too late to deny people Disneyland or twelve nights and 13 days of prepackaged; fun. His book is a fitting substitute for the real thing; it is a journey in time and space, offering the serendipitous pleasures of the open road...
...says Russell Rosen, manager of the Best Western Buccaneer Inn resort motel in Naples, Fla., by way of describing the biggest change in tourist travel patterns since Americans began flocking to the then inexpensive delights of Europe in the postwar years. From the manicured streets of Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif., to the beaches of Nantucket and Cape Cod, the U.S. is playing host this summer to an army of overseas visitors that is expected to rise 19% above the 1979 level to a record 8.2 million people. While the ranks of such visitors have nearly doubled in the past five...
...traffic, as one would expect from a klaxon-less society, is occasionally punctuated by the shriek of rubber tires under stress. Not a teen-ager anywhere. They are in the summer camps, we are told. The city is spotless and newly painted - a kind of Disneyland gilt. The Misha bear, with his Olympic-rings belt, smiles at one from everywhere. He began to get to me after a while - largely because of the mascot's eyes: astonished above the half-moon smile, they become the demented, loopy gaze of someone who has had too much Stolichnaya, the best Soviet...