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...technology may have been flawless, but the people were not. Scientists at a U.S. Air Force ground station on a Maui mountaintop fired a laser beam 220 miles through space at a minute target, an 8-in. mirror attached to a hatch window on the left side of the space shuttle Discovery, which was speeding above the Hawaiian island at 17,500 m.p.h. The intention was to bounce the low-powered ribbon of light off the mirror and send it flashing back to Maui. But as the blue-green laser beam successfully "painted" the spacecraft over the test site...
Rock musicians revived the shirts again in the '70s, partly because the island of Maui became a heavy hangout and partly out of the counterculture reflex to challenge prevailing standards of taste. Today there is a hard core of fanatics who collect the shirts as if they were first editions and value them as what Eliot Hubbard, Publicity Director of CBS's Epic Records, calls "high art." Hubbard's shirt stash which, at 300 and counting, he claims is "the third biggest in the world," goes heavy on popular florals. "My tastes," he says, "run to big botanicals...
...Friday, Dec. 2, 1983, the cameramen, including Eddie Adams, Gordon Parks and Douglas Kirkland, visited such disparate sites as a de livery room of a hospital on Oahu, the ranch country of the Big Island, a Japanese cemetery near Honolulu and the crest of dormant Haleakala volcano on Maui. The resulting kaleidoscope of scenery and characters, natives and haoles, shows an undiscovered country that, paradoxically, seems to grow more appealing as it becomes more familiar...
...campuses from Maui to Massachusetts, more than 45,000 seniors are going back to school this summer. They are studying everything from quasars to Hawaiian quilt-making, Plato to paleobiology. Some are traveling to archaeological sites in Israel; others are bird watching in Virginia. They may wake up stiff after sleeping on cots and feel even less comfortable about communal bathrooms. Like other college students, they undoubtedly grouse about cafeteria food. But there is one big difference between these seniors and the ones who donned caps and gowns a month or so ago: their average...
...Union Street becomes one of San Francisco's most sophisticated shopping areas, with a pricey mixture of antique shops, clothing boutiques and luxury delicatessens. Some of the best bread in the city comes from II Fornaio bakery. The neighborhood supermarket. Jurgensen's, stocks fresh beluga caviar and Maui onions. Says Alain Assemi, owner of a French and Italian women's clothing boutique: "Union Street is the Rodeo Drive of San Francisco...