Word: honolulu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...changes, for integration without disruption: nothing came of them. He even failed to fill the key post of deputy superintendent in charge of personnel. During one time of crisis he was in Los Angeles-recuperating from pneumonia but well enough to make a speech; during another he was in Honolulu on vacation. He got into an unseemly public fuss with the board to get his salary raised from 540,000 to $45,000 a year...
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...
Word of the attack was flashed from the remote outpost to Saigon, thence to Pacific Command Headquarters in Honolulu, the Pentagon and the White House. At his villa in Saigon, General Westmoreland awakened two house guests, both members of the visiting entourage of White House Aide McGeorge Bundy. The three hurried to Westmoreland's headquarters, two blocks away. There they joined Bundy, Ambassador Taylor and other top U.S. officials for an emergency early-morning conference. Their recommendation to Washington: strike back. A few hours later, when Westmoreland inspected the damage at Pleiku and flew to a field hospital where...