Word: hawaiian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Into the Geography. In Honolulu, another example of Warnecke's ability to blend modern technique into a unique geographical setting will soon go into construction. The $14 million Hawaiian state capitol will rise on 24 banyanlike columns that will soar 60 ft. above a shallow reflecting pool-symbolic of Hawaii's oceanic isolation, but not in conflict with the Italian-Renaissance-style lolani Palace near...
Halepule Opio (Hawaiian for "house of prayer for youth") is one solution to the pastor's age-old problem of how to make spiritual contact with youths sitting bored and unmoved through sermons aimed at adults. The Rev. John Morrett, now dean of Honolulu's Episcopal cathedral, founded Halepule Opio in 1956 with special teen-age services in a Holy Nativity chapel. Two years later the parish financed for the project a $160,000 building that included the church (easily convertible to a gym), a kitchen and meeting rooms. The youthful congregation was in on the planning from...
...under desks to avoid them, took to meeting the trains himself so he could "collect fares to pay a few creditors the next day." But as he fought to pull the family out of debt, Walter had his own ideas. In 1902 he borrowed $5,000 to start the Hawaiian Dredging Co.-something he himself considered "strictly a shoestring venture...
Raymond Weill's stamp store in New Orleans' French Quarter, which he runs with his brother, is far from being one of the largest in the U.S., but Dealer Weill is no novice at big-time bidding. Last May he paid $41,000 for a Hawaiian "Missionary" two-center of 1851, which was the highest price ever paid for a single postage stamp at a public auction. Only instance when this price was surpassed was in 1940, when an 1856 British Guiana one-center, brought $45,000 at a private sale...
...Babies. Though there are no immediate plans to use the scio-myzids in large-scale attacks on snail populations, Berg did send five dozen larvae by air mail to Hawaii. There they are being bred to combat a snail-borne liver-fluke disease that has been plaguing the Hawaiian cattle industry...