Word: polynesian
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...anodized aluminum trim called Harvey's Wagon Wheel Resort Hotel, which opened for business last week. Three hundred invited guests showed up for 24 hectic hours of freeloading fun in the public rooms and the gadget-strewn suites (each with its own bar). Upstairs was a great big polynesian-style restaurant, and downstairs was a great big gambling casino; across the street was another casino run by Reno's Bill Harrah and featuring Comedienne Phyllis Diller. Who could ask for anything more...
Other dining places, for visitors with an adventurous palate, are the Athens--Olympia (Greek), the Nile (Syrian), Chez Lucien (French), and the South Seas (Polynesian). But in the end, after heart-burn and indigestion, everyone usually returns to Elsie's for her immortal fifty cent roast-beef special...
...most popular nightclubs are Stroyville; where it's jazz; Blinstrub's, featuring big-name popular entertainers; Club Zara, for belly dancers; and the Polynesian Village, where the prices are high and the drinks exotic...
...tiny (1,130 sq. mi.), four-island group with a population of only 113,500. Western Samoa * is the first independent Polynesian state, the world's newest nation, and one of the few to achieve independence amid total serenity. Into the capital of Apia (pop. 26,000) for the five-day freedom celebrations poured crowds of Samoans and scores of foreign dignitaries. A special commemoration service was held for Western Samoa's revered, onetime resident, Robert Louis Stevenson, who lived out his last consumptive years in the islands. Also on hand were Tupua Tamasese and Malietoa Tanuma...
...potential thoroughbred of their own. Clutching handbooks that detailed the bloodlines of each horse, they prowled the cluster of well-maintained barns, while grooms obligingly paraded the 267 sleek yearlings for inspection. Most drew only a cursory glance. But others-the offspring of such favored sires as Hyperion, Polynesian and Nantallah-attracted knots of peering, prodding admirers. They were looking, explained Humphrey Finney, whose firm conducts the sale on a 5% commission, "for real vigor, for an impression of smartness and alertness, for the heart and the will...