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...Salt Lake City. There were also five women, members of the famed 379-voice Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They had been on the choir's summer tour of Europe (TIME, Sept. 19) and were on their way home to Utah. Also aboard was Dale Brown, an employee of a Hawaiian pineapple company, with his mother. Because Mrs. Grace Brown was nervous about making her first flight, her son had flown all the way to Kansas in order to escort her to Honolulu...
MORE TRAILER SHIPS are in the offing. For runs between New York and West Coast ports', American-Hawaiian Steamship Co. has asked the Federal Maritime Administration to approve expenditure of $115 million for ten 18-knot, 13,170-ton ships, each with a capacity of 570 trailers...
Peter Kane Jr., 45, is a familiar figure around Honolulu. For the past 14 years he has been a saxophone player in the municipal Royal Hawaiian Band, and in his gleaming white uniform he is a sight to see as the band goes marching by. Kane (pronounced Connie) is the fattest member of the band. Last year, after a vacation and a carefree feast of poi,* Peter waddled back to band practice fatter than ever. He measured 5 ft. 7 in. vertically, 4 ft. 8 in. around the middle, and tipped the freight scales at 355 glorious pounds. Eying...
...consider his case. Although Kane was nearly 40 lbs. over the prescribed limit, Dr. David Katsuki, the city physician, recommended that he be reinstated. The commission sympathetically agreed, restored him to full duty. But, lest Peter Kane should dream again of any poi except poi in the blue Hawaiian sky, the commission had a stern warning: he must be weighed monthly, and if his poundage exceeds 261 lbs. by so much as one ounce, he will be suspended without pay until he makes the weight again...
...continued, barking out the words like parade-ground commands: refugee-act amendments, water resources, the Upper Colorado, Frying Pan and Cougar dam projects, customs simplification, minimum wage, the atomic peace ship, Hawaiian statehood...