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...soon as Johnson reached Honolulu, White House Press Secretary Bill Moyers, returning from a scouting trip of Asia, reported the unsettling news that many people anticipated spectacular developments at this week's seven-nation conference. Hastily, the President wrote some cautionary lines into his arrival speech. "We do not expect to pull any rabbits out of any hats at Manila," he said. "We know that the greatest weapons in Viet Nam are patience and unity...
Heartening as were the turnouts in Honolulu and Pago Pago, the President's greatest reception awaited him after he crossed the international dateline. At New Zealand's Ohakea Royal Air Force Station, a grimacing Maori with a poised spear advanced on the Johnsons in the traditional "friend or foe?" challenge. In tribute to the first U.S. President to visit his country, the warrior dropped two darts at his feet (Queen Elizabeth rates three...
Hill and his writers had a mighty-hard coconut to crack. About as cinematic as the Honolulu telephone directory, Michener's epic was subdivided into four laboriously correlated novels that described Hawaii's four main ethnic groups (Polynesian, White, Chinese, Japanese) and presented an exhaustive social, political, religious and even geological history of the islands since the Paleolithic period. From this embarrassment of snitches, Hill & Co. selected two strong narrative threads and with them delineated a simple, impressive picture of how God-fearing but life-hating missionaries destroyed the warm brown souls they came to save...
...Honolulu police rounded up five suspects, and although Thalia at first doubted that she could recognize her attackers, she soon identified all five. In fact, the author notes, her memory improved steadily as the time approached for the trial. Even so, the prosecution's case was weak. The suspects' alibis pretty much ruled them out as Thalia's assailants, and after 97 hours of deliberation, the jury pronounced itself unable to agree on a verdict...
...Deputies. This necessitated a retrial. But Tommie Massie and Honolulu's entire Navy Establishment were indignant. Egged on by his wife's mother, Grace Fortescue, a woman of good connections and considerable gentility, the lieutenant decided to speed up the clock of the law. Two Navy enlisted men, Albert Jones and Edward Lord, were "deputized" as his assistants. One of the defendants, Joe Kahahawai, an amateur boxer, was enticed to Mrs. Fortescue's rented home with a phony police summons and shot to death. Mrs. Fortescue, Massie and one of the Navy ratings were caught hauling Kahahawai...