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...Aloha time for the Harvard basketball team. The Crimson leaves Thursday for the Rainbow Classic basketball tournament in Honolulu, Hawaii...
...Minutes Away. Yet Waikiki can be a disappointment. The beaches are getting crowded. Some of the new hotels (such as the 535-room Outrigger, opening this month) are designed to be low on price and sparing on service. The shops and sightseeing in Honolulu itself are still the most varied, and new attractions, such as the performing dolphins at Taylor Pryor's Sea Life Park at Makapuu Point, draw enthusiastic visitors. But the visitors do not necessarily return to stay at Waikiki. Peter Lawford, Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr. are now moving out to the sleek, discreet...
Bikinis Ho. The jet rush is on, and no letup is in sight. The number of passengers through Honolulu airport has more than doubled in six years, and airline executives foresee an even greater escalation after the 490-passenger "Jumbo" Boeing jets start to fly in 1969. Some visitors flying tourist class pay only $100 for the five-hour flight from...
...Angeles or San Francisco. No fewer than 18 airlines are begging the CAB to let them put new flights on the Honolulu route. Already, tourists spend $300 million a year, making tourism Hawaii's largest civilian source of income, larger than the pineapple and sugar businesses combined. To accommodate them, some $350 million worth of hotel construction has gone up in the past five years. The boom has also created new jobs to absorb the unemployment created by automation on the plantations. Tourism's latest and most exciting surge is now to outer Oahu and what the Hawaiians...
...sure, no place shows signs of the current expansion more obstreperously than Honolulu's Waikiki Beach. The vast majority of Oahu's 109 resort hotels lies along the graceful crescent that stretches west from Diamond Head. Henry Kaiser's 900-room Hilton Hawaiian Village on Waikiki boasts the best bikini watching in the islands; just beyond it, the ebullient Chinese-Hawaiian multimillionaire Chinn Ho has erected the slender, glassy new $27 million Ilikai, with condominium apartments, shops, offices and a rooftop lounge that draws even the kamaainas (oldtimers) from Honolulu...