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...visit turns into a kind of Main Street Club Med: giddy committee members rode a riverboat up the Potomac, sipped champagne on an antique-locomotive ride to the Truman Library in Independence, Mo., and donned balloon hats and leis to feast on pork and lobster at a Texas luau...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Let Us Entertain You | 1/12/1987 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Maui: America's Magic Isle | 3/26/1979 | See Source »

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...

Author: By John D. Weston, | Title: International Students | 3/25/1977 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TIE ONE ON | 3/14/1973 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: May 30, 1969 | 5/30/1969 | See Source »

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