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...legislature, the governorship-how much of a Southern stamp does Carter really have? After all, he left Georgia at 18 for the U.S. Naval Academy, was exposed there to everything from ballroom dancing to naval strategy, followed that with windows on the non-Southern world in such places as Oahu, Hong Kong and Schenectady...
...introduction to the school's program--as a member of the Bateson trip four years ago--came at a three-day intensive "sensitivity session" at a mountain-top retreat on Hawaii's main island of Oahu. The Esalen Institute sent its leading counselor from California to help the 30 students of the school draw closer together, to form a cohesive bumper against the shocks of the different cultures the group would be moving through and living within...
...people of other faiths, the Mormon temple is an impenetrable place of mystery. Whether it is the Gothic-spired colossus in Salt Lake City, the bone white cruciform on Hawaii's Oahu island or any of the other temples that serve the 3.3 million-member Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, the curious outsider invariably meets a closed door. Only Mormons in good standing can participate in the holy "ordinances" that are performed in the temple precincts, or even visit the rooms where they are performed...
...miles from Salt Lake City $10,000-$13,000 per acre Lakeway resort community, near Austin, Texas $25,000-$70,000 per ⅓-to ½ acre Palm Springs, Calif., vicinity of airport $100,000 per acre Lake Tahoe, Calif., waterfront lots $1,000 per front ft. Koko Kai, Oahu, Hawaii, ocean-front on marina $125,000 for less than ½ acre
...newest and most sophisticated of these fantasy parlors is Golf-O-Rama, in Bedford Hills, N.Y. For $3.75 on weekdays and $5.25 on weekends, a golfer can pretend that he is playing 18 holes on one of five courses (Oahu, Thunderbird, Pebble Beach, Firestone, the Dunes). The illusion of actual play is achieved by projecting an image of the selected fairway on a 9-ft. by 9-ft. screen inside a large booth. When the player drives his ball against this screen, a computer measures its speed and direction, makes adjustments for hooks or slices, and controls the movement...