“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
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“[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
“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 … [Read more...] about
"[George Ray] Hill and his writers had a mighty-hard coconut to crack. About as cinematic as the Honolulu telephone directory, [James] Michener's epic [Hawaii] was subdivided into four laboriously correlated novels that described Hawaii's four main ethnic groups (Polynesian, White, Chinese, Japanese) and presented an exhaustive social, political, religious and even geological … [Read more...] about
"Hawaii was selected for the National Science Foundation's huge Moholo project mainly through the energy of the new director of the university's Hawaii Institute of Geophysics, George P. Woollard... He envisions the dumping of atomic wastes into the area's underwater volcanic mountains to create thermal currents that would drive nutrients to the surface for new … [Read more...] about