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...sure, no place shows signs of the current expansion more obstreperously than Honolulu's Waikiki Beach. The vast majority of Oahu's 109 resort hotels lies along the graceful crescent that stretches west from Diamond Head. Henry Kaiser's 900-room Hilton Hawaiian Village on Waikiki boasts the best bikini watching in the islands; just beyond it, the ebullient Chinese-Hawaiian multimillionaire Chinn Ho has erected the slender, glassy new $27 million Ilikai, with condominium apartments, shops, offices and a rooftop lounge that draws even the kamaainas (oldtimers) from Honolulu...
...your-own drink parties in the London Hilton, the typical tippler has cut his intake from six to four. Already four Mayfair hotels have received cancellations on eight major Christmas celebrations. Christmas buying usually begins in mid-November, but this year it has not begun yet. The nation of shopkeepers grumbles that sales of television sets are down more than one-third from last year, and sales of autos are down more than onequarter. These are a few of the outward results of Prime Minister Wilson's program to achieve national economic strength through deflation. And the indications...
...usual trappings and ceremonies will mark the occasion. The Union Jack will come fluttering down, and a new blue and yellow flag will rise in its place. A week of parading and full-dress parties is planned. A new Hilton is opening, and the government is getting ready its application for the United Nations. President Johnson is sending Chief Justice Earl Warren to represent him at the ceremonies, and the Duke and Duchess of Kent will represent the Queen. Yet this week, as tiny (166 sq. mi.), ham-shaped Barbados gets its formal independence from Britain-the 23rd British possession...
...Shinier College (enrollment: 514) in Mount Carroll, Ill., has a 300-seat arena-type theater. The University of Michigan is building a $3,000,000 playhouse with 1,426 seats to serve the university and the off-campus Ann Arbor theater crowd. With $1,500,000 donated by Conrad Hilton, St. Louis' Webster College has put up its new Loretto-Hilton Center...
...York Political Correspondent Nick Thimmesch had been following the Rockefeller road since the gubernatorial campaign of 1962. On election night, he was one of three newsmen admitted to the Rockefeller campaign inner sanctum-room 945 of the New York Hilton. Michigan Governor George Romney has been one of Detroit Bureau Chief Mark Sullivan's assignments for more than two years. San Francisco Bureau Chief Judson Gooding had been on the track of Oregon's Mark Hatfield ever since moving from our Paris office last January. Gooding had come away from his first interview with a deep impression...