Word: honolulu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After a careful weighing of all criteria, including time and distance traveled, experts on congressional expense accounts somewhat dazedly acclaimed a new record holder: Maryland's Democratic Congress man Richard E. Lankford, 47. On a 38-day junket that carried him from Honolulu to Scotland "to see how our military assistance program ties in with our defense effort," the eleventh-ranking Democratic member of the House Armed Services Committee managed, by his own account, to spend $3,597 on meals, hotels and "miscellaneous." When a reporter incredulously noted that all this averaged out at better than $11 a meal...
...Honolulu he called on Governor William Quinn, a former TIME cover subject, was briefed on attempts to make the islands' economy more self-sufficient and was surprised to learn that Hawaii is one American state that is thinking of a land-reform program...
...tolerate none of that. Roared Weinberg: "Somebody's a liar. Mayor Wagner says the company can operate with a 15? fare. I say it can't." Then Weinberg tried a whipsawing tac tic that he had previously used on balky city governments in Scranton, Pa., Dallas and Honolulu. Without higher fares, he warned. Fifth Avenue Coach would have to lay off 1,500 workers and cut down Sunday and night service. He began by sacking 29 workers, many of them old-time employees disabled on the job. In reprisal, Transport Workers Union President Michael Quill...
Weinberg halved the payroll and chopped services, but Scranton Transit now rides in the black, and a union man says grudgingly, "That guy kept 125 jobs that might have been lost." Then he bought control of Honolulu Transit, used Honolulu Transit assets to buy Dallas Transit, and Dallas Transit money to buy control of Fifth Avenue Coach...
...other countries, other food habits are blamed. Japan has one of the highest rates of stomach cancer, and the disease there is commoner among men than among women. Says Honolulu's Dr. Walter B. Quisenberry: Japanese men usually eat first, while the food is very hot; they drink scalding tea; they then drink more alcohol than their womenfolk. He also suggests that traditional stoicism may predispose Japanese men to psychosomatic stomach ulcers and later cancers. In the Scandinavian countries, doctors blame high rates of stomach cancer on diets rich in fish, with home-smoked fish particularly suspected in Iceland...