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...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...
...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...
Five years ago, two-thirds of Hawaii's visitors saw only Oahu. Today, two-thirds of them see at least one Neighbor Island. And why not? Maui and Kauai are only $12.57 and 18 minutes away by DC-9 jet; Hawaii's Kona airport is a mere 43 minutes and $16.95 by turboprop Convair. Air-taxi services also operate to the 15 state and private airstrips on the islands, offer island-hopping tours for as little...
...cascading waterfalls. Youthful (2,800,000-year-old) Hawaii has arid, cactus-sprinkled, sleepily sloping uplands, rain forests, anthurium and macadamia groves, bizarre moonscapes of rock lava topped by the snow-capped peaks of Mauna Kea (13,796 ft.) and still-active Mauna Loa (13,680 ft.). Middle-aged Maui is dominated by the rugged crater of dormant Haleakala (House of the Sun). At its rim nestles a Defense Department observatory; the pack trip to the floor of the crater is like spending a day on the moon...
Cavorting Whales. On Maui, known as "The Valley Isle," mangoes, papaya and passion fruit on the roadside wait to be plucked by the passing traveler. The newest and best resort hotels are going up along a peerless, three-mile stretch of white beach on the southwestern side of the Kaanapali area, where the low-slung Royal Lahaina, the Royal Kaanapali and the towering Sheraton-Maui, built on a lava rock outcropping, together share a $1,800,000 golf course, designed by Robert Trent Jones and blasted out of the slopes of Mount Puu Kukui. A $6,000,000 Hale Kaanapali...