Word: hula
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...roll just as if they understood the words. At the big beach hotels, where the price of a planter's punch increases with the size of the orchestra, the music is a little smoother, but it is still stubbornly repetitious. Every stage show has its hula dancers and its steel guitar...
...recently prohibited a contest to choose a Miss Indonesia for the Miss Universe contest in Long Beach, Calif., after a leftist newspaper complained that she would be "manhandled and ogled at." In Bandung, Western movies are banned because they tend to show "racial discrimination" and provoke "adventurous sentiments." Hula-Hoops, about to catch on belatedly, were banned as sexually provocative...
...these censorious activities the West tends to get blamed for what it introduced and what it did not. How long the reforming move will last in Southeast Asia, no one knows. But if Hula-Hoops and B-girls are easily legislated against, wiping out opium will come harder, for hundreds of thousands of addicts remain whose cure will take time and money...
After an uninhibited campaign of hula rallies, motorcades and TV speechmaking, Hawaii (pop. 600,000) went to the polls last week to pass on 1) statehood, as proffered by the U.S. Congress, and 2) party-primary nominations for two U.S. Senators, Governor and a Congressman-at-large. Results: 1) a rousing 18-1 endorsement-with 85% of the electorate voting-for statehood, which clears the way for Hawaii's admission to the Union by presidential proclamation after the July 28 general elections, and 2) a heavy numerical vote margin for the Democrats, partially offset by the fact that most...
...Astoria's Empire Room, but at her best-in Oh, I Can't Sit Down and It Ain't Necessarily So-she gives the familiar lyrics a delightfully carbonated tingle all her own. Previn and his men swing behind her as discreetly as a trio of hula dancers skating on thin...