Word: honolulu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conservatism naturally. His family amassed a huge fortune in everything from construction to railroads and docks to shopping centers. Ben Dillingham himself got into politics after World War II service in the Army (he won a Bronze Star in the Saipan invasion) as a member of the Honolulu board of supervisors, has put in eight years (1949-57) as a member of the territorial senate, recently served as Republican county chairman on Oahu...
Last week at a political rally in Papakolea, a Honolulu subdivision, Dillingham explained his feeling of political mission. "My family," he said, "came to Hawaii and have lived in Hawaii to serve. My grandfather came here as a missionary. He came to serve. My grandmother came as a schoolteacher. She came to serve. My father filled in 5,000 acres of the harbor, 5,000 acres that have given all of you people and your families places to work, things to do. I want to reinvest some of the privileges, some of the advantages that we have had. I want...
...island of Kauai, the youngest of eight children of a Hawaiian mother and a father of French, Belgian and Chinese extraction. When Arthur's father, a riveter, lost his eyesight in an accident, the family moved to the island of Oahu and settled in Makiki, a section of Honolulu. Arthur's introduction to music was on a toy marimba. Each day after school, Arthur's father put some old Benny Goodman records on the phonograph and locked Arthur in his room with orders to "play along with the records for the rest of the day." Arthur "hated...
...time he was 14, Lyman was good enough to play with a combo in a Honolulu jazz cellar; from there he graduated to the Martin Denny Trio, which plays music something like Lyman's but with more of a jazz feeling. About that time, he married a divorcee from Sacramento, Calif., who still serves as his group's business manager...
This is the domain of Charles Parmiter, 29, a clergyman's son who was born in Massachusetts, brought up in Hawaii, and, after an Army stint in the Far East and four years as a reporter in Honolulu, joined the Los Angeles bureau of TIME. He has reported everything from H-bomb tests to medicine and music. But there is one side of him that likes to race fast cars, to leave a little money behind at the horse races, and to play golf well enough to appreciate those who play it better. As TIME'S Sport editor...