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Hawaii once meant Waikiki-a fabled bit of beach washed by the blue Pacific, where laughing girls wreathed visitors with orchid leis and every day afforded another sun-drenched romp through a paradise of surf and sand, every night (under a perfect moon) another tropical taste of the revelry of luau. But in only ten years, Waikiki has been transformed into some thing that seems to belong more to southern Florida than it does to the once magical islands of Hawaii. Soft-drink and souvenir stands clutter the beach front, the famed beach itself is often so crowded that...
...Mass always follows class," sighed Hawaii Visitors Bureau Manager Charles Braden. And though mass has gone, lemming-like, down to the beach at Waikiki, class is slowly but in increasing numbers beginning to push on past Oahu to the other, lusher and less hokey islands. In 1955 there were only 815 hotel rooms available on outer or so-called Neighbor Islands (v. more than 8,000 in Waikiki alone); last year there were 1,776 with more abuilding...
...Neighbor Islands for a slice of the tourist trade does not seriously worry Waikiki. There seems to be an endless flood of eager U.S. tourists; each year for the last ten the influx has increased by an average 20%. Only four months ago, the Gallup poll asked a cross section of Americans for their choice of a "dream vacation spot," and Hawaii's name led all the rest by a wide margin...
...plans to set up a major canning operation in the south of France. Presumably, Libby will now be welcome. In Hawaii, Tokyo's Kokusai Kogyo Co. is awaiting only Japanese government approval before handing over $8.7 million to buy Sheraton's luxurious Princess Kaiulani Hotel on Waikiki. London's Consolidated Gold Fields of South Africa. Ltd. is bidding $17.5 million to take control of St. Louis' American Zinc, Lead & Smelting...
...insurance companies to keep the conservative old line growing with the times. But a controlling faction led by three of Hawaii's "Big Five'' companies* prevailed. They sold off Matson's non-shipping properties, including its famous hotels on the beach at Waikiki, and insisted that Matson stick to Hawaiian shipping, on which much of their fortunes depended. Hawaii buys 65% of all its goods from the mainland...