Word: diamonds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stirred by Nessfeness, other cities are well launched, notably Washington, where a project at Macfarland Junior High School makes one official gloat that "we may be actually discovering a new dimension in education." Last week, answering queries from Hawaii to Germany, Dan Schreiber said: "We want to recognize the diamond in the rough and start polishing...
Died. James F. ("Boston Billy Williams") Monahan, 62, successful jewel thief whose birthstone was diamond and whose loadstone was high society; of a kidney ailment; in Worcester, Mass. A quiet operator in the Roaring '205, Monahan mingled gracefully with intended victims on the ballroom floor, later climbed second-story ladders for a lifetime take of $5,000,000 (insured value), but died a pauper because he couldn't get an honest job after 31 years in jail...
...Diamond Head, Oilman...
...vacation in 1954. The tourist was Henry J. Kaiser, fresh from several careers as wartime shipbuilder, automaker, steelman and millionaire chief of a vast industrial empire. Vacationing with his second wife, Kaiser found hotel accommodations scarce on Honolulu's crowded Waikiki Beach, rented a house near Diamond Head, and sat back to wonder who would house the hordes of mainlanders he felt sure would discover the island's natural beauty and balmy climate. His predictable answer: Henry J. Kaiser...
...units, a million-dollar 100-room hotel, a 1,000-seat convention hall, a 14-story, 260-room Ocean Tower, an aluminum dome for the convention over flow, and a $1.5 million, 13-story hotel. Now being finished are a pair of $5 million, 17-story hotels called the Diamond Head Towers, which will give the Hawaiian Village more rooms (1,600) than any other hotel in Hawaii. Kaiser plans to raise the total to 5,000 when business justifies it. Says he: "Conventions can equal the rest of the tourist business in Hawaii combined...