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...Andes above my head"). One day he set the plane down in the ocean about 50 miles off the coast of Ecuador ("I got very thirsty"). But when he tried to handcrank his engine for a takeoff, the inertial starter clutch failed. "There I was," he says, "drifting to Honolulu. I cranked myself to exhaustion." After long minutes of finger drumming, Quesada suddenly recalled an old aviator's superstition. He went back and urinated on the tail. Naturally, the engine started up with the next turn of the crank...
...Pentagon itself was impressed by some sobering reports on the second Soviet missile firing in mid-Pacific. Last week's long-range shot into an area 1,000 miles southwest of Honolulu was seen and monitored by a U.S. Navy plane crew, proved that the Russian ICBM is indeed very sophisticated. As the missile bore in at a re-entry angle of 18° (which indicated that the Soviets fired at maximum range), a capsulelike object was detached from the nose cone and dipped into the ocean. Both hit near the middle of a triangle of three Soviet ships...
Born. To William Francis Quinn, 40, Governor of Hawaii, and Nancy Ellen Witbeck Quinn, 40: their seventh child, fifth son; in Honolulu. Name: Gregory Anthony. Weight...
...with care, treated with respect. Her act, when the noisy audience stops to listen, is swinging singing at its best. But these days Ann Weldon, who once knocked around the edges of the big time, often seems to be singing to herself. She is lost in The Clouds, a Honolulu nightclub on Kapahulu Avenue no better and no worse than a dozen other joints competing for the tourist's dollar or the serviceman's paycheck...
Irish Mist. Honolulu hotspots run from the honky-tonks of Hotel Street to the posh tourist traps at Waikiki, but measured by the quality of the entertainment, they all amble along at their old, pre-statehood pace. The Japanese businessman at the Ginza Club sees the same show that titillates the sailors at Bill Pacheco's Oasis. The strippers could never make the big-time spots, but they sport the manufactured Stateside names that are the hallmark of their trade-Irish Mist, Martini Martin, etc. They are small competition for the low-paid song-and-dance girls imported from...