Word: kauai
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Arthur Lyman was born on the island of Kauai, the youngest of eight children of a Hawaiian mother and a father of French, Belgian and Chinese extraction. When Arthur's father, a riveter, lost his eyesight in an accident, the family moved to the island of Oahu and settled in Makiki, a section of Honolulu. Arthur's introduction to music was on a toy marimba. Each day after school, Arthur's father put some old Benny Goodman records on the phonograph and locked Arthur in his room with orders to "play along with the records...
...crisis came on the third orbit. Project communicators, listening intently to Carpenter's voice as he passed overhead, were disturbed by his tone. "We feel the astronaut was acting somewhat tired during the last pass," the Woomera station later reported. Added the station at Kauai, Hawaii: "We had the impression that he was very confused about what was going on, but it was very difficult to assess whether he was confused or preoccupied...
...wasteland of sand and water. It covers more than 50 million square miles and extends almost halfway around the earth. Its inhabitants hunt goats in fern-forested Kauai. and missile nose cones in the sleepy lagoon of Eniwetok. It is the habitat of strange "birds" with peculiar names-Samos, Discoverer. Midas, Nike-Zeus-whose flights are scratched across the sky in weird contrails and tracked by missile-watching machines on a California mud flat and in such far-flung outposts as Alaska, Hawaii, Kwajalein and Christmas Island. The PMR-for Pacific Missile Range-is the nation's largest testing...
...always, his staff had primed Nixon with bits of local knowledge to toss off at opportune moments. Landing on the island of Kauai in a rain squall, he smilingly observed that Kauai legend holds rain to be a good omen. At Hilo, on the island of Hawaii, he mentioned not only the tidal wave that devastated Hilo last May but also the big wave that hit the city back in 1946. On Maui, he tried his tongue on some flattering words in Hawaiian: "Maui no ka oi"-roughly, "Maui is the best of all the islands...