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...often strong, and seven small windmills have been installed on ranches and in small businesses. Long-range generating capacity is estimated at 400 megawatts, or up to 25% of the state's requirements. But no windmill is now cost competitive with oil. An 80-megawatt facility on Oahu, scheduled for completion in 1984, currently projects a loss of 7? on every kilowatt-hour...
...breathtaking accomplishment and extraordinary luck. Lieut. Heijiro Abe was navigating the lead plane in a formation of Nakajima bombers over Pearl Harbor's "battleship row" when his chance came; a bomb from his plane soon tore into the bowels of the West Virginia. On the eastern edge of Oahu, at Bellows Field, Sub-Lieut. Iyozoh Fujita, flying a Zero fighter from the Japanese carrier Soryu on his first combat mission, saw his flight commander shot down by an enraged soldier furiously firing a Browning automatic rifle. Both Fujita and Abe survived the war. Abe, now 69, became a rear...
...Jenner, 31, Olympic decathlon champion in 1976, who is now pursuing an acting career (Can't Stop the Music); and Linda Thompson, 30, actress (TV's Hee-Haw) and onetime girlfriend of Elvis Presley; he for the second time, she for the first; on the beach in Oahu, Hawaii...
...travel agency and recently visited Waikiki: "Tourist guides warned that we should go out at night only in pairs and that ladies should hold on to their handbags. I think a lot of people come home afraid." Complains Peggy Ontai, who sells conch shells at a roadside stand on Oahu: "This crime has to stop. Tourists are too frightened to drive around the island and get out of their cars." Travel agents report that greater numbers of vacationers are opting for Mexico instead...
...every 25 Maui residents is in the real estate business. Says Teney Takahashi, 40, the energetic. Oahu-born president of Amfac Communities-Maui, the island's first bigtime real estate developer: "I'm not kidding you, we just can't build 'em fast enough." Francis Blackwell, 54, Boston-born executive director of the Maui County Visitors Association, boasts: "We have more millionaires per capita than any other place in the country, including Palm Springs." To which Kapalua Land Co.'s Oregon-born vice president, Michael Gallagher, 36, adds: "How many more rich people can there...