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Article: Dutch treat. (Aruba)
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- The Saturday Evening Post
- Article date:
- March 1, 1997
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Winter-weary vacationers are treated royally on Aruba, a booming outpost of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
A tanned and muscular bodybuilder sprinted toward the beach, eager to cool down after his morning workout at a nearby fitness center. Along with everyone else in the Palms Restaurant at the Hyatt Regency Aruba, Mike, the busboy, was impressed. "I'm going to look like that in two years," stated the teenager, flexing his already bulging biceps. He could say this with assurance because he recently had won an island bodybuilding competition.
Both Mike and his native Aruba share determination and confidence. Only Aruba is flexing its tourism muscles ...