Word: hawaiians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Until this summer there had been few hints of trouble in paradise. Over the past five years, Rewald, 41, had persuaded some 400 investors, many of them Hawaiian plutocrats and VIPS, to pour $13 million into his flimflam firm. As recently as last June, he had been a local bigwig himself, owner of the Hawaii Polo Club and hobnobber with Governor and Mrs. George Ariyoshi. But in August an Oahu grand jury indicted him for theft; claims of nearly $8.4 million have been filed against him. Pronounced Bankruptcy Trustee Thomas Hayes: "The money is gone...
...last June, for instance, $326,000 in "interest" was paid out to earlier investors. But that same month a quarter of a million dollars was siphoned off by Rewald. He used the money to pay for exotic travel, his children's full-time tutor, and upkeep for two Hawaiian ranches, where he stabled his 17 or more polo ponies...
Bird's first try ended in wreckage on the rocks at Maui in the Hawaiian Islands. He spent 15 months building and outfitting another boat, sleeping on floors because he had no money. Last August, he set out again. He was delayed for three months by the troublesome El Nino current and spent the time listening to the BBC and brooding about nuclear warfare and Israel's invasion of Lebanon. In tapes he made at the time, his speech is painfully slow; photos he made of himself show a sad and serious face. When his boat broke...
...stands still. The one willful exception is Niihau, a privately owned cultural preserve in Hawaii. All visitors, movies, alcohol and dogs are banned from the 18-mile-long island, and Government officials are not permitted to spend the night among the 226 residents, most of whom still claim pure Hawaiian ancestry. On the mainland, small ironies continue to tinge a region's complexion. New Yorkers complain about the Hispanization of the Big Apple, while New Mexicans of Spanish descent grump that their state is becoming too Anglo...
...whole planet earth is traveling." Ten times as many Germans as Americans visit Italy each year; as many vacationers on the Continent come from tight little Britain as from the entire U.S. By contrast with the early days of jet travel, when tourists from the heartland came dressed in Hawaiian shirts and Bermuda shorts or polyester pants, and asked stridently for their bills in "real money," most Americans today are well attuned to European sensibilities. A customer-service official at a Stockholm Nordiska Kompaniet department store says mildly: "We no longer see so many 85-year-old teen-agers with...