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...DIED. HIRAM FONG, 97, son of impoverished Chinese immigrants who became a millionaire businessman and the first Asian American in the U.S. Senate, serving as Hawaii's only Republican Senator for 18 years; in Honolulu. A product of the Honolulu slums who worked his way through Harvard Law School, he lobbied for Hawaii's statehood as speaker of the territorial house of representatives and in 1959 was elected one of the state's first two Senators...
...DIED. HIRAM FONG, 97, a son of impoverished Chinese immigrants who became a millionaire businessman and the first Asian-American in the U.S. Senate, serving as Hawaii's only Republican Senator for 18 years; in Honolulu. A product of the Honolulu slums who worked his way through Harvard Law School, Fong lobbied for Hawaii's statehood and in 1959 was elected one of the state's first two senators. He was a staunch advocate for civil-rights causes, such as eliminating racial quotas in immigration...
...James Friedman, Jane Lederman; Bernard Goldberg, Adele Rubenstein; Hiram Gans, Ethlyn Holzman; Milton Kramer, Helen Schultz; Nathaniel Lyons, Jeanette Lockwood; Frederick Strans, Barbara Landsburgh; Ezra Salinget...
There was no doubt in Hiram Bingham's mind that he had stumbled onto something mystical in the summer of 1911, when he discovered the dazzling Incan settlement now known as Machu Picchu. He was convinced that the remote Peruvian outpost dotted with temples was a sacred city, the birthplace and final stronghold of the Incas, where virgins sought sanctuary and priests worshipped the sun god. The charismatic Bingham--a Yale University archaeologist, later a Connecticut Governor and U.S. Senator and much later a model for Hollywood's Indiana Jones--announced, in a series of magazine articles and best-selling...
...Hank, ne Hiram, Williams made what is widely considered to be the loveliest country music recorded in the '40s and early '50s, and had an unmatched ability to glory in sin on one song, repent on the next and carry off both with conviction and hangdog cool. There is no Hank Williams-size figure in country music today...