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...Honolulu, Hawaii...
...normally brown hair sprayed soft silver for the occasion, the job applicant presented herself at the desk of George Chaplin, editor of the Honolulu Advertiser. Honolulu Housewife Heloise Cruse, 40, admitted that she knew nothing about journalism, but Chaplin was undone by the sight of that sterling coiffure topping 62 inches of feminine aggression. "It was obvious," said he later, "that if I didn't say yes, I was going to spend the rest of my working days saying no to her." So began, in improbable fashion, one of the most improbable success stories in the annals...
Heloise is the wife of an Air Force lieutenant colonel stationed at Honolulu's Hickam Air Force Base and the mother of two children. Her grasp on good housekeeping is scarcely older than her column. "I didn't know you had to clean a John until six months after I got married," says she. Once, before guests arrived for a garden party, she dressed up brown spots on 'her lawn with green vegetable dye. But her homely hints are usually followed to the letter: when she recommended putting a cup of water inside a turkey to keep...
...were two white men who have made careers of getting into trouble for causes: New York's James Peck, 46, who spent three years in prison as a conscientious objector during World War II, and Connecticut's Architect-Painter Albert Bigelow, 55, who got tossed into a Honolulu cell after he and three shipmates set out in 1958 in the ketch Golden Rule, heading for Eniwetok atoll in an effort to halt scheduled U.S. nuclear tests...
Nothing from Grandfather. The first move is Chinn Ho's trademark. He has made the foundation of his empire, Honolulu's $25 million Capital Investment Co., Ltd., so flexible that it can quickly and easily be tailored to attract the risk capital required for specific situations. Stretching out from Capital are ten subsidiaries with tentacles reaching out all across the Pacific; some subsidiaries have subsidiaries; one sub-subsidiary in turn controls three other corporations. Through Capital, Ho controls the whole complex. "We can arrive at very fast decisions," he says. "That's the essence of our operation...