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...born islands (only eight are inhabited), 2,400 miles west of San Francisco, 6,435 sq. mi. in area (size of Rhode Island and Connecticut together), spread over 1,600 mi. of the mid-Pacific. Included in the 50th state: inhabited islands of Hawaii, Oahu, Kahoolawe, Lanai, Maui, Molokai, Kauai, Niihau. Mean temp. 74°, annual precipitation ranging from a low of 14 in. on the moonlike volcanic coast of the "Big Island" of Hawaii to the U.S.'s highest of 471 in. on the lush island of Kauai. Agricultural economy ($302 million a year from little more than...
CAPTAIN JAMES COOK dubbed the archipelago the "Sandwich Islands" when he dropped anchor off Kauai in 1778, got a god's welcome from thousands of handsome Polynesians again when he returned the following year, then was killed by natives during a fight over petty thievery. By 1796, the islands were under the firm, beneficent rule of King Kamehameha I. who united the land after ten years of civil war among smaller chieftains, and began turning his domain into a thriving nation. After his death in 1819, his son Liholiho (Kamehameha II) took over, began the systematic abandonment...
They gave it everything they had, and a lot they did not. They gave it, for a budget, almost $6,000,000, and for a setting the most beautiful Hawaiian island -Kauai, about 100 miles west-northwest of Honolulu. They gave it a topflight director (Joshua Logan) and a glittering cast. They gave it, on the theory that there can never be too much of a good thing, every last alarum and excursion of the play's somewhat too ployful plot, and then proceeded to lard it out with new business, a new song, even a whole new battle...
Quake-born tidal waves, raised by shock forces shot up from the ocean floor at close to the speed of sound, flooded Japanese fishing villages yesterday, several hours after the seismic surge wrecked two villages in Hawaii. Twenty-six beach homes were destroyed on Kauai Island by the waves, caused by two massive under the-ocean earthquakes near the Aleutians...
...their leathernecks in a pre-invasion reconnaissance. Then soldiering gives way to smooching when Tony finds Mary Murphy, the daughter of a French planter, in her jungle hideaway. The enemy, however, keeps the lovebirds, as well as the action, on the wing through the full-colored, gorgeous jungle on Kauai in the Hawaiian Islands, where Beachhead was filmed...