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...jailbird. Alcatraz was decommissioned as a prison in 1970 and is now part of the Golden Gate Recreation Area. Since it was opened to the public by the National Park Service last October, the U.S. equivalent of Devil's Island has become San Francisco's biggest tourist attraction...
According to present plans, Alcatraz will be operated as a tourist attraction only for the next five years. Ideas for its future use are solicited from the sightseers, who have suggested, variously, that it should eventually be turned into a West Coast Statue of Liberty, a crab farm, a U.N. memorial, a seminary, an Indian amusement park or a monument to the conquest of space. Some stern-vis-aged visitors think it should become a prison again, but others suggest simply giving it back to the pelicans...
...load them onto ships. Britain prudently cancelled the scheduled visit of Prince Richard of Gloucester, a representative of the Queen, to the independence ceremonies and alerted a warship to stand by to evacuate foreigners in case of violence. The U.S. State Department advised Americans to look for another tourist paradise. Tourism, which used to bring in 130,000 visitors each year, has totally evaporated...
...kills a young woman who is swimming alone at night. When bits of her body wash ashore the next morning, there is no mistaking what has happened, but the town fathers persuade Police Chief Martin Brody not to close the beaches. After all, it is the beginning of the tourist season, rentals are lag ging anyway, and with luck the thing will rumble off to Patagonia, or at least to East Hampton...
...Donald Sutherland character, at least, is engaged in an intellectual, noble activity--saving Venice. The couple go to Venice to get over their daughter's death. Venice here is a beautiful city but with a feeling of danger about it. It is late autumn, the end of the tourist season, damp and windy. The strange Venetian cats are vaguely frightening. And as John says of the church he's working on: "The deeper we get the more Byzantine it gets...