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Tourism, however, is the island's biggest money spinner ($176 million, vs. $65 million from agriculture in fiscal 1977). Maui's seven major resort hotels have an occupancy rate of well over 90%, a phenomenon that actually distresses the hoteliers because they hardly have time to change the sheets between check-out and checkin. Not at all unhappy are the property developers who are dotting condominiums around the hotels on what was useless brush and mesquite land a few years ago. If Maui in the past century was ravaged by diseases brought in by outsiders, the island today...
...tale from the good old days? In a way. The boy, Jay O'Callahan, is now 39 and makes his living in a fashion that surely would have stumped the panelists of What's My Line? He is a spellbinding spinner of stories of his own devising, the practitioner of a craft older than Homer, as old as mankind, that has largely been lost in modern times. Whether he tells about two fatuous bears who are forever pinning medals made of leaves on each other or about the voyages of Magellan, his stories captivate young and old alike...
...centuries, stands only 6 in. when full grown but is seven times stronger than man. With exhilarating wit and tongue-in-cheek charm, Dutch Physician Wil Huygen and Illustrator Rien Poortvliet put together a mock sociological history of the gnome that is proving to be an astonishing money spinner. Ponderously titled leven en werken van de Kabouter (The Life and Work of the Gnomes) in The Netherlands, the book is a spoof that solemnly reports that, among other things, Mozart's gnome pal is still alive, gnomes always have twins, they use opium for digestive upsets and would rather...
...city that care forgot," tourism has traditionally been the second biggest money-spinner after its port, the nation's second busiest. The French Quarter, its major magnet, is a trap, not an attraction, a mart of sleazy sex shows, watered whisky and jaded jazz...
...Platinum Spinner. One hit LP has made Peter Frampton, 26, a multimillionaire in a mere 18 months. Frampton Comes Alive! has sold 11 million copies, earning the transplanted British rock star $6.4 million; in addition, he grossed $3.5 million in S.R.O. concerts across the U.S. last year. It took the wispy (5 ft. 7 in., 120 lbs.) guitarist ten hard years of experimentation and road tours before he hit platinum. Says he: "I would never have believed 18 months ago that I'd be driving around in limos, own a Rolls and live this...