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...heavily regulated thrift industry, it helps for executives to know their way around Washington. On that score, Honolulu Federal Savings & Loan should be a winner. Its new owner is H.F. Holdings, an investment firm founded by William Simon, 58, who was Treasury Secretary under Presidents Nixon and Ford. Simon has named another old Washington hand, Preston Martin, as chairman of H.F. Holdings. Martin, 62, served as vice chairman of the Federal Reserve Board from March 1982 until March of this year...
...Simon, Honolulu Federal is the first thrift institution on a lengthy shopping list. He plans to acquire several West Coast S and Ls and put together a financial chain that will "span the Pacific." Martin will scout out potential acquisitions and negotiate the buyouts. He will probably be busy. H.F. Holdings already has bids pending on two ailing California thrifts: Bell Savings & Loan of San Mateo and Southern California Savings & Loan of Beverly Hills...
...University of Florida's Fort Lauderdale Research and Education Center: "In one instance, in Hallandale, Fla., a single colony had driven foraging tunnels underneath four large condominium buildings and infested each one." The insects chew up virtually anything in their path. Last year downtown Honolulu lost power for half a day after Formosan termites severed a 1-in.-thick electrical cable...
...either the undergraduate or graduate level, seem to vary. Freshman Anh Hguyen-Huynh, a Vietnamese now living in Cleveland, says he was drawn by the mystique: "It is something in the air, something in the spirit of the place." M.B.A. Wendy Roylo Hee, a regional planner in her native Honolulu, picked Harvard "because it was tough. I felt like I was being prepared for whatever was out there." Sarah Keller, Ph.D. '79, now teaching anthropology at Eastern Washington University, agrees that the Cambridge mystique remains as powerful as ever: "You say 'Harvard' and there's this pause," she says. However...
...hour comedy of errors that seemed to parody the February revolution. The charade began when about 8,000 Marcos loyalists gathered in the capital's Rizal Park, as they have done every Sunday since mid-March, to champion their exiled leader, now reigning over a seaside villa in Honolulu. Then, as is their custom, more than 1,000 members of the ragtag group drifted into the nearby Manila Hotel, the onetime playground of Imelda Marcos, for drinks. This time, however, they were joined by two truckloads of armed soldiers. The next thing they knew, Arturo Tolentino, Marcos' vice-presidential running...