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Exploring Burial Caves. To accommodate visitors new luxury hotels are also proliferating in the Neighbor Islands. Empress of the group is Laurance Rockefeller's $15 million Mauna Kea on Hawaii. Among its attractions: rooms and promenades full of Polynesian wood carvings, inner courtyards luxuriant with bamboo, hibiscus and banana trees, plus exclusive rights to canter over the Parker ranch with jovial Hawaiian paniolas (cowboys) and a challenging 18-hole $2,000,000 golf course. Since its opening in July, 1965, Mauna Kea has been virtually S.R.O. It is raising its rates this month...
...Samoan leis-made of shells. In an even more honorific ritual, the Johnsons were offered coconut shells filled with a bitter concoction made from pulverized roots and known as kava. Lyndon barely touched the cup to his lips; but Lady Bird, offered the cup by a chief with a hibiscus tucked behind his ear, gamely gulped about a teaspoonful (she allowed later that "it had a medicinal taste...
...generally listless. "If you think about it, the immorality of it grabs you by the throat, and you want to run, to get it out of your system," says a white not long out of Europe. "But then it's a new day, and the hibiscus blazes on your stoop, the housemaid is singing a township song as she hangs out the clothes, and your children are tanner than ever and growing like trees. The anguish of South Africa seems a long way away...
Physically, the school for which Hamilton set this goal is as spectacular as its symbol, the rainbow. Its 268-acre campus abounds in landscaped lawns, red and yellow hibiscus, shower trees and coconut palms. Semicircled by the greenery of Manoa Valley's bordering volcanic mountains, the campus overlooks Honolulu, Waikiki Beach and Mamala Bay. Student dress is almost as colorful as the sunsets. An Indian girl in a scarlet sari strolls with a Chinese girl in sneakers and blue jeans. Caucasian girls in muumuus and poi pounders (an above-knee muumuu with long, tight pants) vie for attention with...
...best substitute for a safari he is likely to find anywhere. Animals in Africa brings its lens to bear on all manner of African fauna, from elephants lumbering through the bush with ears spread like spinnakers to a striped chameleon inching its way into the center of a hibiscus flower. Animal Worlds, with photographs by Ylla, Fritz Goro, Eliot Porter and others, pursues fish, bird, insect and animal life from the tropics to the Arctic, with a text that makes their various worlds admirably clear...