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Outside San Francisco in Marin County, a 2,200-acre luxury real estate development is rapidly going up that will eventually be home to 16,000 people. In Honolulu, plans are afoot to break ground for a 28-story, 1,056-unit cooperative apartment building. In Hong Kong, the foundation for a new 166-room hotel is being laid. In Manila, Tokyo and Bangkok a network of agents are investigating new business opportunities. Masterminding this transpacific wheeling and dealing is stocky, cigar-chomping Chinn Ho, 57, the prototype of Hawaii's newest business phenomenon: the self-made, fast-moving...
...toehold in the haole establishment; he was the'first Oriental named a trustee of one of Hawaii's landed estates, the huge Robinson estate, a bastion of Hawaiian conservatism, first Oriental invited to join the businessmen's Commercial Club, the first named President of the Honolulu Stock Exchange...
...Karate King. The high priest of Hollywood's fast-growing karate sect, and host at last week's exhibition, is a black-maned, 6-ft., 210-lb. devout Mormon named Ed Parker, who, he says, learned the deadly, lightning-fast ballet in his native Honolulu in order to avoid getting into fights with friends who taunted him because he did not drink or smoke. After serving a Coast Guard hitch during the Korean War and graduating from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, he moved to Pasadena, opened his first karate studio four years ago, started a second...
Last month another log was thrown on the fire by Lieut.Colonel Paul D. Hickman of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, who astounded a national security seminar in Honolulu by declaring that not only did at least two Russian astronauts perish in a space attempt, but that U.S. officials knew the name of one. The Pentagon hastily repudiated Hickman's admittedly unofficial information, adding that the Air Force had "absolutely no evidence" to support the assertion. But last week came a Washington whisper that the Pentagon did indeed have evidence. The new rumor: that U.S. radio-telemetry...
...three engines on a C-54 began to cut out just after he took off from La Guardia. He limped back to the runway-to find that the engineers had fitted his ship with experimental spark plugs, without warning him. Then there was the plane he was flying from Honolulu to Oakland. It vibrated strangely at odd moments. Days later he discovered that if he had slowed down cautiously, he would have surely crashed...