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...Americans were offered the same, and accepted. He made no such offer to the flustered Chinese, but used the only Chinese words he knew: "Kung Hei Fat Choy [Happy New Year]," even though that celebration will come in January. It broke up the Chinese. As they giggled wildly, the Aeroflot engineer, still smiling, added in English: "you bastards...
Yale coach Al Grassons's foil team includes Peter Cheng, last year's freshman captain, and sophomore John Choy. Neither should be much of a problem for Harvard's Tom Musliner, New England intercollegiate foil champion, and senior Takashi Iwasawa...
...average at Erasmus Hall High School was in the 90s all the way. She worked in the evenings at Choy's Orient, the local wontonnery. "I loved the idea of belonging to a small minor ity group," she says. "It was the world against us in the Chinese restaurant." And she worked on the personality that was to be Barbra. "I used to spend a lot of time and money in the penny arcades taking pictures of myself in those little booths. I'd experiment with different colored mascara on my eyes, try out all kinds of different...
Subdividing the Air. Hottest properties are cooperative apartments, which can easily be turned into hotel space to meet the tourist invasion. One of the most successful builders of co-op apartment hotels is Kepokai (Hawaiian for pounding sea) Choy Aluli, 36, a lawyer who turned to real estate after he flunked his bar exams and was twice defeated for public office. Aluli saw the hotel boom coming in 1954. But when he tried to build a hotel, he quickly learned that high land cost and tight mortgage money made it difficult for a small developer to operate. He turned...
...jobs that ranged from bill collector to tourist guide. After graduation he worked for two years, borrowed $3,000 to go to Harvard Law School, went back to Hawaii in 1935 with his degree and "10? in my pocket." The law firm he founded is wonderfully Hawaiian-Fong, Miho, Choy & Robinson -Chinese, Japanese. Korean and Caucasian, in that order. He plunged energetically into politics, and after the war into business, is now the president of six prospering companies (real estate, insurance, shopping centers, loans and investments, and a banana plantation), has spent 14 years in the territorial legislature...