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Word: maui (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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MARION BEADLE Hana, Maui, Hawaii...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 10, 1969 | 10/10/1969 | See Source »

...second Apollo experiment also ran into difficulty. Astronomers at the McDonald Observatory near Fort Davis, Texas, the Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton, Calif., and the Haleakala Observatory on Maui, Hawaii, were unable to locate the lunar reflector, an arrangement of 100 prisms that they hoped would reflect laser beams from earth. The beams were to be used as a precision measuring tool that would yield, among other things, the exact distance between earth and moon, proof of whether there is really any drift between continents and accurate figures on the earth's wobble. The major reason for the trouble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Moon: SOME MYSTERIES SOLVED, SOME QUESTIONS RAISED | 8/1/1969 | See Source »

Because of Banko's discovery, the Maui nukupuu was removed from the Interior Department's roster of extinct animals and put on the official list of "Endangered Species of Native Fish and Wildlife." The rest of that list, as announced last week, amounts to a catalogue of the 20th century's assault on wilderness life in the U.S. Some of the animals named may eventually drop off the list and disappear forever. A few, like Banko's bird, are species that have reappeared from apparent oblivion. A sampling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Escape from Extinction | 3/28/1969 | See Source »

...Great Maui Hope. Actually, last week's big sumo tournament at Tokyo's malodorous Kuramae Kokugikan stadium had enough drama to make a U.S. boxing promoter salivate. There was the old champion, grimly struggling to come back. And there was the young challenger, the darling of the fans, eagerly pursuing the crown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wrestling: Dance of the Rhinoceri | 10/4/1968 | See Source »

...known professionally as Taiho (loosely, "Giant Bird"), had a bad year in 1967. He injured his left elbow and knee and was out of action for eight months. By contrast, 1967 was a banner year for Jesse Kuhaulua, a 24-year-old from the Hawaiian island of Maui. Of Polynesian-Spanish ancestry, he stands 6 ft. 4 in., weighs in at 315 Ibs. and wrestles under the pseudonym of Takamiyama ("High-View Mountain"). He is the first foreigner with no Japanese blood to be promoted to makuuchi-sumo's big leagues. In all Japan, only 34 wrestlers hold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wrestling: Dance of the Rhinoceri | 10/4/1968 | See Source »

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