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Rattiner lives contentedly. The papers gross $300,000 a year from advertising, netting the editor-publisher about $32,000-enough for him, his wife and two children to vacation three months each winter in Provence, Maui, or some similarly exotic spot, where he concocts the coming summer's hoaxes. Rattiner turns out fully 80% of his papers' copy (three reporters handle the rest), and not all of it is tomfoolery. The weeklies are heavy on local history and guides to entertainment and shopping...
...higher energy prices. But another of the poll's findings offers what could be an insight into Congress's dawdling. Of those questioned, 52% put unemployment at the top of their worry list, 25% were primarily concerned about inflation, and only 12% thought that energy was the maui problem...
...Lindbergh, while still remaining a high-level consultant to Pan American World Airways, became an early, ardent and passionate conservationist, traveling around the world in the cause of the environment. In his last years his favorite spot was a simple, five-acre retreat on the Hawaiian island of Maui...
...Maui was where he chose to die and be buried. When doctors at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York told him last month that he had only days to live, Lindbergh, confined to a stretcher, had himself flown to Maui, where he arranged the details of his funeral and burial as meticulously as he had planned his flight to Paris 47 years before. Following his instructions, he was buried within eight hours after his death. Hawaiian cowboys crafted a roughhewn casket of eucalyptus wood, and a grave was quickly dug atop a cliff overlooking the Pacific. His body...
...point Neil Young, who felt that the group was not using enough of his songs on C. S. N. & Y. records, stopped speaking to Stills. After disbanding, the four pursued separate careers with mixed success but gradually became better friends. A year ago, on the Hawaiian island of Maui where all four had rented beach houses, plans for a professional reunion were discussed, then crystalized after the success of the Dylan tour...