Word: alii
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...real and synthetic-is everywhere on Kauai. At the Coco Palms, surrounded by Hawaii's largest coconut orchard, conch shells are sounded each evening, while runners race through the darkened groves, whirling their flaming torches and lighting up flares, just as they did in the courts of the alii (chieftains). The Hanalei Plantation (opposite), which includes a 20th Century Fox set designer's re-creation of a Hawaiian monarch's palace, overlooks the beach where Mitzi Gaynor washed that man right outa her hair in South Pacific. Owner Lyle Guslander, who has built hotels on all three...
After reading your recent stories on Jack and Jacqueline Kennedy, et alii, I'm delightfully convinced that we have again that rare phenomenon: government of adults, by adults, for adults...