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High Winds. It is the tourist Hawaii that Hawaiians have done the best job of selling. The center of this tourist world is the white sand crescent of Waikiki beach, rimmed by the big hotels. Most tourists spend their time lolling in the sun-with perhaps a duty Circuit of Honolulu's island of Oahu. They visit the mid-island pass called the Pali and gaze down with ohs and ahs from its high cliff. There King Kamehameha I in 1795 won an important victory in his campaign to unite the islands by beating the defending Oahuans and forcing...
...Waikiki Beach, pretty Nina ("Honey Bear") Warren, visiting Hawaii with her father, California's Governor Earl Warren, cavorted in the surf on well-turned legs that are still regaining strength after her successful fight against a polio attack a year...
...millionaire's mansion which has been converted into a Waikiki nightclub, 372 aloha-shirted delegates of the International Longshoremen's & Warehousemen's Union gathered last week to sing the praises of their leader, Harry Bridges, and chant approval of the line he wanted them to follow. Still out on bail after his perjury conviction last year (for denying Communist Party membership), Harry Bridges strode cockily onstage, laid out a 117-page report for his boys to pass. The boys passed it, by standing vote. The report denounced...
Meanwhile, Eurich and Wilson have kept on writing questions for TIME-readers - often from unlikely places such as just-captured Cherbourg, a pitching destroyer, the beach at Waikiki, and airplanes flying all over the world. Usually, each drafts a complete test, then, if possible, flies to a collaboration point. From there they send the resulting questionnaire to our staff for editing and checking. Its arrival often produces a spirited give & take between the editors and the educators, ending in a test...
...Booth, a stocky, rugged-looking man, had read the ad in the Farm Bureau magazine. It sounded good: "HOOSIER HAWAIIAN AIR-A-VAN: Away from home only 22 days, yet 18 full BIG days of Hawaiian enjoyment. Actually see and visit Pearl Harbor, Diamond Head, huge volcanoes. Live on Waikiki Beach for a week and take part in a big broadcast." He decided to take his wife and eleven-year-old son, too. The price for the whole family...