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...reaching consequences. Now several influential groups are calling for a third. "You have no idea what can happen," says veteran Honolulu journalist Jerry Burris, who covered the hot and humid ConCon in the summer of 1978 that convened in downtown Honolulu's old federal building, directly across from Iolani Palace, the seat of the former Kingdom of Hawaii...
There are three things that make us especially proud of Iolani School: 1) it has never had any racial quotas-there are currently 45 different racial and national combinations in Iolani; 2) we are pleased that our graduates have achieved the highest college entrance record of any school in Hawaii; 3) Iolani is proud of its faculty, for it has introduced advanced and new programs of study, including six modern languages-French, German, Spanish, Russian, Chinese and Japanese...
...Iolani School Honolulu
Unions Grow Up. Though integrated Honolulu bears no love for Mississippi's Eastland, it recoiled next morning at a newspaper picture of Harry Bridges and Attorney General Sylva shaking hands while Jack Hall hovered in the background. Shocked, Governor Samuel Wilder King summoned Sylva to his office at Iolani Palace for a 20-minute lecture. The gist of his angry remarks: Sylva had no business honoring convicted Communist Hall, who was on bond pending an appeal "only because of the extreme leniency of American...
Flowers were everywhere, even around the delegates' necks. The Royal Hawaiian Band played; a hula girl slithered. At week's end, 61 delegates-haoles (Caucasians), Hawaiians, Chinese-Americans, Japanese-Americans-stepped up to sign Hawaii's new state constitution in Honolulu's Iolani Palace...