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...litter is human, to pilfer, divine." Such a maxim might well be carved on every American monument and tourist attraction. For if airmailing a beer can into Yellowstone National Park seems to give pleasure, stealing a hunk of Arizona's petrified forest seems to afford pure bliss...
...years ago, but he was the most imitated architect in history; even today his name remains synonymous with flawless precision and proportion. He was, and still is, the Mozart of his profession. Though 1973 marks no special anniversary in his life, one of Italy's most interesting tourist attractions this summer is a huge show of Andrea Palladio's drawings, models and projects, held in Vicenza, the city near Venice where he lived. Close by, he erected his villas: the Villa Rotonda with its four porches, the stately Barbaro at Maser, and a dozen more that are still...
...investment pattern, as much as its size, worries Hawaiians. Japanese companies have invested more than $250 million, mostly in the islands' booming tourist industry. "If the current pace of Japanese investment continues, it could mean foreign control of the state's leading industry within the next five years," concludes a report of the Republican caucus in the state house of representatives. A Honolulu cab driver is more blunt: "What the Japanese couldn't do during World War II, they are trying to do with bags of money-take over these islands...
Residents whose income is tied to the tourist trade fear that they will be shut out by the new owners. Some Honolulu tourist officials complain that the Japanese are developing a "closed system" in which their countrymen fly J.A.L., use Japanese-owned hotels, buses, shops and restaurants, and Japanese tour guides. "American interests do not see a dollar's worth of business," says one official. The Japanese investors, however, deny this charge...
Surveying the scene, a South Vietnamese general simply shrugged. "I suppose we ought to turn Quang Tri into a tourist attraction. Maybe we could sell bricks from the citadel at $2 apiece...