Word: maui
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Long, long ago, legend has it, the demigod Maui became incensed with the sun. It passed too swiftly over his Hawaiian island, leaving little time for fruits to ripen or womenfolk to dry their tapa cloth. So, with a web of 16 ropes, Maui lassoed the sun. "Give me my life," pleaded Sol. "I will," replied the demigod, "if you promise to move more slowly across our sky." The sun consented, and to this day, islanders swear, its arc is longer, its rays more generous than anywhere else on earth. And ever since, Maui's mighty volcano has been...
Located about eight miles southwest of Maui, the 45-sq.-mi. Hawaiian islet of Kahoola we consists mostly of arid red earth and barren rock. It is inhabited only by about 400 wild goats. To the U.S. Navy, the island is an ideal target range; since 1941, pilots have blasted it with millions of tons of bombs, shells and rockets. But to native Hawaiians, Kahoolawe is sacred ground, home of the gentle rain goddess Hina...
...past 19 months, bands of young Hawaiian demonstrators have landed on Kahoolawe. Their purpose: by their presence to force the Navy to stop the bombing, at least temporarily. Sometimes the game of hares and hounds turns dangerous: two protesters drowned in rough seas while trying to swim back to Maui after one foray. But the young Polynesian Hawaiians have vowed to continue their protests until the Navy leaves the island in peace. TIME Correspondent James Wilde accompanied the latest expedition and afterward sent this report...
...many ways, the papers were wrong about Lindbergh from the start. Somehow the myth was always askew; up until his death from cancer on Maui in 1974, Lindbergh remained elusive, difficult. Far from being merely a sort of hayseed genius of mechanics, he was the son of a populist Republican Minnesota Congressman and a schoolteacher, whose father, Charles Land of Detroit, was a distinguished dentist who invented porcelain caps for teeth. Lindbergh had lived in Washington, D.C., and studied at the University of Wisconsin until he dropped out midway through his sophomore year to take a course in flying...
Married. Lowell Thomas, 84, peripatetic broadcaster; and Marianna Munn, 49, a former charity executive; both for the second time; on Maui Island, Hawaii. Thomas, whose first wife died in 1975, ended his 46 years of regular radio reports last spring...