Word: maui
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...driveway of an investigator for Hawaii's attorney general, who had been ordered by Republican Governor William F. Quinn to investigate the scandal. And Senate Watchdog Duarte himself accounted for one of the rugs; it had, he said, been mistakenly shipped to his home on the island of Maui, along with 852 Ibs. of office furnishings he had purchased at discount rates from a firm renting equipment to the senate. Still missing: $10,000 worth of souvenirs from the last session of Hawaii's territorial legislature...
...volcano-born islands (only eight are inhabited), 2,400 miles west of San Francisco, 6,435 sq. mi. in area (size of Rhode Island and Connecticut together), spread over 1,600 mi. of the mid-Pacific. Included in the 50th state: inhabited islands of Hawaii, Oahu, Kahoolawe, Lanai, Maui, Molokai, Kauai, Niihau. Mean temp. 74°, annual precipitation ranging from a low of 14 in. on the moonlike volcanic coast of the "Big Island" of Hawaii to the U.S.'s highest of 471 in. on the lush island of Kauai. Agricultural economy ($302 million a year from little more...
...observation. The one that has already been manufactured, though it was disassembled in early October, is now in operation at Pasadena, Calif. The others, it is hoped, will be ready by the beginning of next year. They will be located at Curacao, West Indies; Arequipa, Peru; Villa Dolores, Argentina; Maui, Hawaii; Tokyo, Japan; Woomera, Australia; Naini-tad, India; Shiraz, Iran; Cadiz, Spain, and Johannesburg, South Africa...
Paul Abrahamian of Somerville, Mass.; Andrew W. Bingham of Hartsdale, N. Y.; James J. Cairns Jr. of Belmont, Mass.; Leo H. Daley of Andover, Mass.; Joel H. Cohen of Providence, R. I.; Philip L. Eastabrooks of Kahul Maui, T. H.; Ronald Eikenberry, Greenville, Ohio; Anthony A. Gianelly of Medford, Mass.; Arthur R. Hahn Jr. of Wellesley, Mass.; Alex Goldstein Jr. of Northport, Me.; Peter C. Harpel of Bangor, Me.; David G. McLean of Watertown, N. Y.; Henry J. Moore of Gloucester, Mass.; William F. Morris of Rochester, N. Y.; Richard C. Norris of Schenoctady, N. Y.; James K. Polese...
Comb Land. The rest of the voyage to Callao was easy. As Dr. Davis neared the Peruvian coast, he recalled an old tale of the islands. A Polynesian expedition under Chief Maui Marumamao, says the legend, sailed east from Easter Island and came to "a land with ridges like a comb." The Peruvian coast is like that, with steep, barren ridges running down to the sea. There the Polynesians built a temple, but they did not stay long because they did not find what they needed: fertile land near the sea. This description also matches Peru, for most...