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Vulgar Crowds. Despite its manifest disadvantages, Pantelleria has developed something of a tourist trade. Because it has been so ill-favored by nature, it has a tranquillity few other islands in the Mediterranean can boast. In the past several years, wealthy Italians eager to avoid the vulgar crowds at Capri or Amalfi have discovered it. So have moviemakers. Except for the untoward events of World War II, about the only thing of note that has happened in Pantelleria in the past 2,000 years or so was the shooting of a pornographic movie, Thank You, Mrs. P., two summers...
Most islanders are equally apprehensive about the intentions of Libya, which has bought 370 acres of lava rock near the island's east shore. Among the most militant of the Arabs, the Libyans boggled Pantellerian minds by announcing plans to build a 2,000-bed tourist center, complete with a heliport on the island. Some suspicious souls, both at home and on the Italian mainland, are afraid that Pantelleria may be invaded by Arab tourists carrying something more dangerous than cameras. A Social Democratic member of Parliament recently demanded that the government explain why Libya had purchased "the most...
...used to go around his home turning out lights, "felt like a sucker paying $3 for a hotel breakfast," and preferred to fly tourist class. His one indulgence was a showcase residence in Dallas-an oversized version of George Washington's Mount Vernon home. Typically, he had bought it at a bargain-basement price of $60,000 during the Depression...
Following two snowless winters, which have spelled near disaster for the New England ski industry, business and tourist officials were merchandising the foliage as never before. Ski areas opened their chair lifts and gondolas for bird's-eye viewing of the foliage, and towns held foliage festivals, turkey shoots and lumberjack breakfasts. Travel agencies booked tree-watching tours on buses, sightseeing boats, antique steam engines and even World War I biplanes...
...shopping were not on the tourist's mind, it might have occurred to him while he was stalled in heavy traffic on a back road, a captive audience to seasonal radio commercials. "Colorful sweaters to rival the surrounding hillsides with their brilliance," gushed one commercial in New Hampshire. Along the byways, picturesque barns bulged with suspiciously fresh antiques, and every front yard seemed the site of a garage sale of faded castoffs rescued from the attic...