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...once meant Waikiki-a fabled bit of beach washed by the blue Pacific, where laughing girls wreathed visitors with orchid leis and every day afforded another sun-drenched romp through a paradise of surf and sand, every night (under a perfect moon) another tropical taste of the revelry of luau. But in only ten years, Waikiki has been transformed into some thing that seems to belong more to southern Florida than it does to the once magical islands of Hawaii. Soft-drink and souvenir stands clutter the beach front, the famed beach itself is often so crowded that it looks...
...Matson Lines'' used to mean white cruisers ribboning through Hawaiian islands with luau, leis and instant romance for all aboard. As a business. Matson (1962 revenues: $100 million) is somewhat less glamorous. Labor troubles and stockholder squabbles led it into a storm that climaxed in an operating loss of $2,400,000 in 1961. Then, Matson called in a new skipper, Stanley Powell Jr., 46, rounding out his first year as president, proved last week that he has begun to bring the line back into clearer sailing weather: he reported that Matson earned...
...Hawaii, the urge to go native overcame Conductor Leonard Bernstein on his 42nd birthday, so he stripped down for action and conducted a seashore luau on the island of Maui. Clad only in a slit-to-hip malo and a rakish palm hat, Bernstein entertained his entire New York Philharmonic Orchestra, which was flown over to Maui after two concerts under Bernstein's baton in Honolulu. During the day the mellowing boy wonder of music went waterskiing, stuffed himself with poi and other Hawaiian goodies, planted a coconut tree and got a raft of gifts, including a pass exempting...
...campaigned as if he expected Hawaii's three electoral votes to decide the outcome in November. He was also testing his style and some of his "impact lines" for future use. Inevitably, he was draped with leis, let himself be kissed by Hawaiian maidens, showed up at a luau wearing a just-purchased electric-yellow sports shirt, ate gluey poi with his fingers in the native manner...
...Reform congregation are a sizable community compared to Hawaii's eight or ten practicing Jewish families before the war. One of Temple Emanuel's most popular members is the Honolulu Advertiser's nightclub columnist, Eddie Sherman, who recently dramatized Hawaiian Jewry by giving a luau (a Hawaiian outdoor dinner) and calling it a Jewau. The menu included such succulencies as bagel breadfruit, pineapple-flavored matzoth balls, and a renamed local wine, Mogen David...