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...Aspen and neighboring Snowmass, Colo., the ski-and-sun resort area whose population of 17,000 swells to 35,000 when the snow is on the trails from Thanksgiving through mid-April. Six years ago, studio apartments in the Lichenhearth condominium complex sold for $30,000; today, these 675-sq.-ft. jewel boxes go for $175,000. Last year Jay Kuhne, a California real estate man, parted with $275,000 for his three-bedroom town house condo on the Aspen Club grounds; this year the unit is selling for $675,000. Prices are rising by the month. A studio with...
...waters on glass-bottomed boat, catamaran, windjammer or outrigger canoe; to golf, play tennis, deep-sea fish and surfcast; to flight see by helicopter; to beach-walk, backpack, camp, climb, ride horseback, bicycle, nature-walk, birdwatch, whale-gaze, explore, eat, drink, shop and be entertained, all on a 729-sq.-mi. isle about half the size of Long Island, N. Y. Largely pristine and un-Waikikied, it may be the last paradise with panache...
...Western Isles, few are as precious to Scots as tiny lona (pop. 90), where many kings of Scotland are buried and where St. Columba landed in the 6th century, bringing Christianity and the Irish art of whisky distilling. In 1693 the powerful Campbells of Argyll received the 4½-sq.-mi. island as a gift from the Crown and have watched over it ever since. But from Inveraray Castle, ancestral home of the Dukes of Argyll, came word last week that lona will be sold to raise money for taxes. The announcement touched off concern among Scots who fear that...
Life is especially hard in the north. Families in Hanoi are permitted only 75 sq. ft. of living space per person-roughly the recommended allowance for prisoners in U.S. federal penitentiaries. Factory hands must work six days a week, and spend the seventh at political meetings or on "volunteer" construction projects. Privately owned automobiles are all but nonexistent, and spare parts for bicycles are in short supply. "There is a great deal of unhappiness," says a Hanoi-based diplomat. "People are starting to complain privately. One of the whispered questions heard most often is an ironic one: 'What...
...Captain Bligh's midshipmen. Says a California boatwife: "When you cook corned beef and cabbage, everything you wear next day smells like corned beef and cabbage." Miamian Tom Dixon, 35, who inhabits a relatively spacious 45-ft. catamaran houseboat he designed and built, notes that his 360-sq.-ft. living area is the equivalent of a one-car garage. Even at a dock, high winds and storms can make a boat dweller feel as if he were inside a Cuisinart...