Word: hula
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...five-day cruise to Honolulu, the astronauts began debriefings, ate a Thanksgiving Day turkey dinner and staged a traditional Navy "pollywog" ceremony for Astronaut Richard Gordon, who had never before crossed the equator at sea. Gordon was draped with a sign reading: "Beware! Luney Wog. Unclean. Unpredictable." Following a hula-skirted welcome in Pearl Harbor, the astronauts were trundled in their van aboard a flatbed truck and driven to nearby Hickam Air Force Base for the flight to Texas...
...play itself begins, members of the company gradually come on stage--dressed mostly in well-worn tee-shirts and dungarees--and use the area purely as a playground. These young people--about a fifth of them Negro--dribble and pass basketballs, throw Frisbees (unusually skillfully, too), play with hula-hoops, spar and wrestle, do gymnastics, shinny up and down the swing ropes, and hang by their heels from the top of the stage. Some of them make rhythms with a tambourine, rattle, triangle, maracus, and a pair of claves. Eventually there are some two dozen young people, and a crescendo...
YOUR DOLLAR'S WORTH (NET, 9-10 p.m.). "What Price Paradise?" pits the package tour and its routine activities (a hula lesson and a luau in Hawaii) against the adventures (climbing Mauna Kea, cave exploring) of independent travel...
...Hula Bowl, a post-season game between two teams of graduating college all stars, drew a near-capacity crowd last January despite miserable weather. "The reason," says Charles Barnes, president of Sports Headliners, Inc., "was that the stands were packed with agents...
Barnes should know. He is one of the hustling businessmen who have created a whole new industry out of representing professional athletes. Like the other agents, Barnes flew to Honolulu for the Hula Bowl to bargain for some of those "six-figure packages" performing on the field. He ended up with the grand prize: Heisman Trophy Winner O.J. Simpson. "Chuck," said O.J. to his new agent after the game, "I thought you were going to put on a uniform and go out there and play flanker so you could talk to me in the huddle...