“Plantation Worker Luis Espina, who had not been off Lanai Island in 17 years, gasped when he saw row on row of the cannery’s machines core and peel 100 fresh pineapples a minute. Said he: ‘I never knew such things existed.’” -From “Can Such Things Be?” Time Magazine, Apr. 24, 1950 … [Read more...] about
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“For the squads of Philippine lawyers preparing cases on three continents, stripping away the financial camouflage that disguises the [Ferdinand] Marcos empire is just one part of what international law scholars agree will be an extraordinarily complicated legal battle… The Central Bank of the Philippines has sued to recover the crates of gold and $1.5 million in freshly minted … [Read more...] about
“‘The world is moving toward a new era—the Pacific era,’ says Hawaii’s Governor John A. Burns, and his state shows a lively new determination to make its mid-Pacific location the center of the region’s rising tide of intellectual and scientific achievement.” -From “New Tides in the Pacific,” Time Magazine, Feb. 26, 1965 … [Read more...] about
“Prosaic buses haul passengers from terminal to aircraft at Atlanta and Honolulu Airports, among others. The Hawaiian version consists of pint-sized wiki wiki (hurry hurry) vehicles that play taped Hawaiian music and broadcast advice on where to rent cars and find free pineapple juice.” -From “Curing Terminal Fatigue,” Time Magazine, June 21, 1971 … [Read more...] about
“[Don Ho’s] fans range from Lyndon Johnson’s sister Rebekah Bobbitt, who attended a party welcoming him to New York, to Jacqueline Kennedy, who caught his first show at the Duke’s on her visit to Hawaii last year, stayed right through to the 3 a.m. closing. (Next day she invited Don to entertain a swinging party of 35 at her rented home in … [Read more...] about