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While out on the town for a few beers in 1956, an Army sergeant named James O'Callahan broke into the hotel room of a teen-age girl on Waikiki Beach. There was a scuffle, the girl screamed, O'Callahan fled. He was later arrested by Hawaiian civilian police, turned over to the military for prosecution and charged with housebreaking, assault and attempted rape. At a court-martial, O'Callahan was convicted and given ten years at hard labor-a penalty harsher than he could have expected from many a civilian court...
...George Do It. Lean and lanky at 5 ft. 11 in. and 160 Ibs., Spitz has been a water baby since he was two, when his father, a steel-company executive, was transferred from Modesto, Calif., to Honolulu. "We went to Waikiki every day," recalls Mark's mother. 'You should have seen that little boy dash into the ocean. He'd run like he was trying to commit suicide." After four years in Hawaii, the Spitz family moved to Sacramento, Calif., where Mark got his first competitive instruction at a local Y.M.C.A. By the time...
...accession, resented the fantail services; a Catholic, he considered them a Protestant imposition, and at Hardy's suggestion wrote a letter of complaint to a Catholic chaplain. Gunnery Officer Luis G. Belmonte, another lieutenant, took umbrage when Arnheiter asked him to wade fully clothed into the water off Waikiki to shoot a picture of the skipper and his visiting wife in an outrigger. Belmonte began keeping a "Marcus Mad Log" of Arnheiter's actions and came up with 34 separate complaints...
...week, lured by the publicity value of such a venture, Honolulu bid to get the larger Queen Elizabeth next year when she is taken out of service for similar reasons. The world's largest passenger ship, in an unlikely ending, would be set atop a coral reef overlooking Waikiki Beach...
...With his tousled hair and sly brown eyes, he has the smirk of a beach bum who owns the passkey to every cabana on the island. Matrons rush onstage to buss him; others in the S.R.O. house palpitate like palm fronds. Don Ho, 37, is the big noise from Waikiki these days-the biggest in the history of Hawaiian show business...