Word: sardinia
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...sounded almost like a dream ten years ago, when a syndicate headed by Karim, the young Aga Khan, announced the development of Sardinia's Costa Smeralda as a multimillion-dollar superresort. Hotels have since been abuilding, tourists arriving, yachts dropping anchor. But then it began to look like a dream again. Said Karim: "We have not found the expected support in Sardinia." Moved by the jet set's response, Karim promptly reversed himself. Once more the dream seems real...
...time, Vermont was chic, and Alaska and Spain were favorite places to get away from it all. Nowadays those who really want to drop out head for Tobago, Sardinia and Pago Pago. One potential hideaway that until now has been completely ignored, however, is De Witt Isle, five miles off the southern coast of Tasmania* in the savage, blustery "Roaring Forties." Its assets are 4,000 acres of jagged rocks, tangled undergrowth and trees twisted and bent by the battering winds. Local fishermen call it the "Big Witch," and settlers have avoided it like the plague, but bandicoots (ratlike marsupials...
...shallow waters where thermal layers and the screws of some 2,000 merchantmen on any day distort sound. The watch is most intense at six main "choke points," or "ticket gates," as Admiral Kidd calls them, through which maneuvering submarines must pass. These are Gibraltar, the sea south of Sardinia and Sicily, and the areas between Crete and Greece, Crete and North Africa, and Crete and Turkey. Both sides keep watch on the choke points. At the same time, surface ships frequently shadow one another. Cruising aboard the Roosevelt recently, TIME Correspondent John Shaw was startled to come on deck...
...balmy isle of Sardinia, this year's resort area of Porto Rotonda has taken the play from last year's Costa Smeralda. Playing along, Sweden's handsome, eligible Crown Prince Carl Gustaf, 24, did not hesitate a minute when the "All in Red" theme of one of Porto Rotonda's costume parties was announced. He draped himself in red sarong, Belafonte shirt and red beads. Also spied at the fashionable new playground were those now-quite-grown twin daughters of Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini, 18-year-old Isabella and Isotta...
...such areas as public health, public works, forestry, mass transportation, water supply, welfare and local planning. But they may well find themselves running afoul of Rome quite often until the areas of authority are clearly worked out. Five such councils are already operating on the islands of Sicily and Sardinia and in the northern border regions of Valle D'Aosta, Trentino-Alto Adige and Friuli-Venezia Giulia, where the demand for local government has been particularly strident. In this week's elections members of similar councils are being selected in the 15 other principal regions of mainland Italy...