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Outside San Francisco in Marin County, a 2,200-acre luxury real estate development is rapidly going up that will eventually be home to 16,000 people. In Honolulu, plans are afoot to break ground for a 28-story, 1,056-unit cooperative apartment building. In Hong Kong, the foundation for a new 166-room hotel is being laid. In Manila, Tokyo and Bangkok a network of agents are investigating new business opportunities. Masterminding this transpacific wheeling and dealing is stocky, cigar-chomping Chinn Ho, 57, the prototype of Hawaii's newest business phenomenon: the self-made, fast-moving...
...waving huge Goldwater placards. "This country," said Goldwater, "is being caught up in a wave of conservatism that could easily become the phenomenon of our time. Nobody knows for sure its present strength or its future potential. But every politician, newspaperman, analyst and civic leader knows that something is afoot that could drastically alter our course as a nation." It has an anchor in the "conservative movement" among college students, he said, who "know that this thing that has gone along for 30 years and has cost $400 billion under the phony name of liberalism has not worked...
...citizens, especially colonial-minded oldtime civilian employees of the Panama Canal Co., were as dissatisfied as the Panamanian demonstrators. "The sight of a representative of the U.S. handing our capitulation notice to another country made me want to puke," said one. Yet a quiet movement toward international friendship is afoot on the isthmus, and its patron is a powerful one: the commanding officer of the U.S. Army Caribbean, Major General Theodore F. Bogart, 55. Lanky General Bogart got to know and like Panama when he was stationed there as a lieutenant in 1941. Now, as the man who might have...
...foreign ministry strongman is Carlos Olivares, nominally the subsecretary, who is much closer to the Communists. Roa's problem is that he cannot live down the evidence of his earlier independence. A collection of his 1953-58 writings published last year under the title En Pie (Afoot) shows that until recently he was above all antiCommunist. He sneered at the "trained seals of the Kremlin," warned that "it is necessary to prevent anti-iniperialism from being converted into a treacherous instrument of the imperialist policy of the U.S.S.R.," said flatly: "Communism is the most serious threat that today hangs...
Campers and hikers in the Sierra Nevada used to encounter a husky, grim-faced man who haunted the mountains on an endless search, traveling sometimes afoot, sometimes by motorcycle, stopping on a ridge now and then to scan the silent expanses of forest and rock with his binoculars. Many a California outdoorsman came to know him by his nickname, "the Phantom Rider." Fewer knew his real name, Clinton Hester, and his mission: he was searching...