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...band breaks into his theme song, Hawaiian Crooner Don Ho rides the spotlight in like a surfer on a 30-footer at Makaha. Except for a red lei ringing his powerful shoulders, he is either bare from the waist up or all in glistening white, from open velours shirt to tight jeans and stocking feet. In his left hand, he sometimes totes white ankle boots, in the right a snifter of Chivas Regal Scotch. With his tousled hair and sly brown eyes, he has the smirk of a beach bum who owns the passkey to every cabana on the island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Entertainers: Trader Ho | 8/25/1967 | See Source »

...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The Winternational Drag Racing Championships from Pomona, Calif., and the International Surfing Championship from Makaha Beach, Hawaii...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Feb. 24, 1967 | 2/24/1967 | See Source »

...stay at Waikiki. Peter Lawford, Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr. are now moving out to the sleek, discreet $11 million Kahala Hilton on the more exclusive, eastern side of Diamond Head. Even farther away, Chinn Ho has broken ground for a 5,000-acre resort at isolated Makaha, which will be the first to put adequate hotel space close to the superb northern surfing beaches on Oahu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: On to the Outer Islands | 12/16/1966 | See Source »

...Hawaii, is a pleasant affliction known as "Polynesian paralysis." But one thing that is most emphatically not suffering from paralysis in Hawaii is the tourist business. Since statehood and the jets arrived, tourism has taken off like a surfer riding one of the 25-ft. "Castle Break" curls at Makaha Beach. In 1960, there were 296,517 mainland visitors to the state. In 1966, there will be 700,000. The most conservative estimate predicts 1,000,000 visitors by 1970, the most optimistic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: On to the Outer Islands | 12/16/1966 | See Source »

...SPORTS SPECTACULAR (CBS, 2:30-4 p.m.). In a tripleheader, CBS watches 24 surfers competing in the Duke Kahanamoku Surfing championships at Makaha Beach, Hawaii, then covers the North American Gymnastic championships in Montreal, and refreshes football fans' memories with highlights of the Baltimore Colts' 1965 season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Aug. 19, 1966 | 8/19/1966 | See Source »

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