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Unpleasant Surprises. Reaching Honolulu, Madalyn faced a few unpleasant surprises. Buddhists, who do not like to think of themselves as atheists, constitute only about one-third of the island's population. The majority of the rest of Hawaiians are Catholic. And back home in Baltimore, a judge added two more contempt-of-court citations to the charges, arising out of the police melee, that a grand jury returned. Mrs. Murray may never have to face the music. Although she is legally subject to extradition, Baltimore seldom tries to recapture defendants on the lam except for serious crimes...
...curiosities. In Hawaii, the left-wing International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's 'Union has been able to elect, and then to influence, legislators outside the heavily populated island of Oahu. The union therefore can ram almost any labor legislation through the legislature at the expense of Honolulu's underrepresented businessmen. Dominant farm legislators in Delaware have maintained a law that requires a farmers' market to be situated on a main street of Wilmington. Florida's Dade County (Miami) supplies 25% of the state's gasoline-tax revenue, gets back only 4% of this...
Descending from a Pan American thrift flight in Honolulu, Lynda Bird Johnson, 20, was nearly strangled by a nest of welcoming leis. "I can't see," she said plaintively. They kept coming. "I can't stand another one." So it went, for the eight days of her Hawaiian visit, through speech giving, sightseeing and skindiving: an embarrassment of riches, from feathered gourds to a monkeypod tray, and an even more embarrassing swarm of aloha photographers. She banned one from a luau for snapping her in a bathing suit, wailed at others, "I can't stand...
...gauge shotgun); in Manhattan. A moody, drivingly ambitious onetime fruit vendor, Walston started the firm in San Francisco under the aegis of Barik of America Founder A. P. Giannini, moved to New York in 1958, where he built up to assets of $151 million, with 90 offices from Honolulu to Switzerland. His one and great pleasure was going on African safari, from which he returned to decorate his office with water-buffalo heads, rhinoceros hides, an elephant's foot-and an arsenal of small arms...
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