Word: honolulu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During their five-day cruise to Honolulu, the astronauts began debriefings, ate a Thanksgiving Day turkey dinner and staged a traditional Navy "pollywog" ceremony for Astronaut Richard Gordon, who had never before crossed the equator at sea. Gordon was draped with a sign reading: "Beware! Luney Wog. Unclean. Unpredictable." Following a hula-skirted welcome in Pearl Harbor, the astronauts were trundled in their van aboard a flatbed truck and driven to nearby Hickam Air Force Base for the flight to Texas...
...teaching of foreign languages and the publication of Travel & Camera magazine, which Amexco established by purchasing and redesigning U.S. Camera and Travel magazine. In June, the company began a computerized service that can provide almost instantaneous reservations at some 250,000 hotel and motel rooms between Boston and Honolulu...
...Fairbanks $26,300 Anchorage 24,375 Honolulu 24,025 New York 22,975 San Francisco 22,975 Cleveland 22,800 Sacramento, Calif22,450 Detroit 22,100 Buffalo 21,750 Pittsburgh 21,750 Los Angeles21,575 Newark 21,575 Carson City, Nev 21,400 Cincinnati 21,400 Toled021...
Before flying home from a Hawaiian vacation with his family in 1966, a five-year-old Miami boy packed some unusual souvenirs. Hawaii's pest-control agents waved the lad through Honolulu International Airport-never suspecting that he was lugging three brown-shelled snails. Soon after reaching home, his mother ordered him to toss the creatures into his backyard. What he tossed was an ecological bombshell. Innocently, the boy had introduced into the mainland U.S. a ferociously fertile predator: Achatina fulica, more commonly known as the giant African land snail...
Campaign for Controls. The slowness of this schedule prompts the cry for more direct action against prices. Senator Daniel Inouye of Hawaii warned the annual conference of the American Bankers Association in Honolulu last week: "No one likes wage and price controls, but we may have to institute them temporarily to halt galloping inflation." Many labor leaders agree, provided that similar controls are put on profits and dividends. At its convention in Atlantic City, the A.F.L.-C.I.O. last week called for Government action to hold down the costs of medical care, insurance and housing. The Administration, however, remains dead...