Word: luau
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...potent as ever, except that today he casts his net at the malihinis, the strangers from all over who swarm to his Valley Island by the thousands, bearing millions. They do not come to Maui for the Don Ho-hula-grass skirt-sarong-muumuu-mai tai-lei-and-luau scenario that, in mainlanders' eyes at least, has become to Hawaii what Mickey Mouse is to Disney World or the one-armed bandit to Las Vegas. They come for some of the world's most spectacular scenery and a variety of activities unmatched by any comparable area on earth...
Brady said he hopes to generate further interest in HUISA this spring. HUISA will tentatively sponsor the showing of two films, a luncheon lecture series, excursions to local museums, displays in the university libraries, and a Hawaiian-style "luau...
...point of fact," confide the knowing Dake and Decherd, "it is the drink which President Nixon shared with Chou En-Lai in Peking last February." They should have added that Pat Nixon wore a hula skirt while Mrs. Mao Tse-tung dished out poi at the Peking People's Luau...