Word: kea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...window frames (the answer saved Shell $200,000 in Houston). The driving force in the San Francisco office is Charles Bassett, 46, a touseled six-footer who came to S.O.M. from the office of the late Eero Saarinen. He ranges widely in styles, designed the Alcoa building, the Mauna Kea Hotel in Hawaii, and the bare-boned Oakland-Alameda County stadium, which he boasts is a beauty "with no rouge on her cheeks...
CORNELIA (KEA) VAN DER ZIEL...
...umbrella-shaped monkeypod trees set off lush folded ridges, twisting valleys and cascading waterfalls. Youthful (2,800,000-year-old) Hawaii has arid, cactus-sprinkled, sleepily sloping uplands, rain forests, anthurium and macadamia groves, bizarre moonscapes of rock lava topped by the snow-capped peaks of Mauna Kea (13,796 ft.) and still-active Mauna Loa (13,680 ft.). Middle-aged Maui is dominated by the rugged crater of dormant Haleakala (House of the Sun). At its rim nestles a Defense Department observatory; the pack trip to the floor of the crater is like spending a day on the moon...
Exploring Burial Caves. To accommodate visitors new luxury hotels are also proliferating in the Neighbor Islands. Empress of the group is Laurance Rockefeller's $15 million Mauna Kea on Hawaii. Among its attractions: rooms and promenades full of Polynesian wood carvings, inner courtyards luxuriant with bamboo, hibiscus and banana trees, plus exclusive rights to canter over the Parker ranch with jovial Hawaiian paniolas (cowboys) and a challenging 18-hole $2,000,000 golf course. Since its opening in July, 1965, Mauna Kea has been virtually S.R.O. It is raising its rates this month...