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- <text id=89TT0775>
- <title>
- Mar. 20, 1989: American Notes:Hawaii
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Mar. 20, 1989 Solving The Mysteries Of Heredity
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 31
- American Notes
- HAWAII
- Lindbergh's Uneasy Rest
- </hdr><body>
- <p> High above the Pacific Ocean in a tiny churchyard on the
- island of Maui, Charles A. Lindbergh's grave is as remote and
- austere as the legendary aviator said he wanted it to be before
- he died in 1974. But the seclusion Lindbergh sought in life --
- and in death -- is slipping away.
- </p>
- <p> In 1977 the U.S. Interior Department ceded a 1.1-acre plot
- adjacent to the grave site to Maui County for recreational use.
- Local residents as well as the Lindbergh family winced at the
- idea of picnic tables and chain-link fencing, and the park was
- never built. Now the Federal Government may take back the land
- and put it up for auction. A driveway could slice through the
- cemetery within 20 ft. of Lucky Lindy's grave. Whether the site
- remains in public or private hands, the world is already
- pressing in on the Lone Eagle: more than 50 visitors a day find
- their way to his burial ground.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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