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With his laid-back baritone and signature hit, Tiny Bubbles, crooner Don Ho, who died of heart failure at 76, personified the breezy charm of his native Hawaii. For decades, he drew crowds to clubs in Waikiki, where he sang just two days before his death. "We still like to swing," he said recently. "We just do it earlier...
...keeping summer temperatures at a stifling 82.4°F (28°C). To beat the heat, salarymen are told to doff their black suits in favor of light colors and open collars. The result made the Prime Minister occasionally look as if he were addressing parliament from a beach in Waikiki, but at least Cool Biz had more style than a similar Japanese idea from the 1970s: the short-sleeved business suit. Sartorial concerns aside, Cool Biz saved about 79,000 tons of carbon dioxide...
...bills run up each day by the party. As the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations debated the merits of entertaining the exiled dictator in such high style, Marcos reportedly was looking for a haven outside the U.S., even as he was trying to close a deal on a Waikiki estate. The property, appointed with two single-story houses and signs in the driveway to scare away trespassers, has a market value of almost $1 million. The Marcoses may have left some of their splendor, but the love of splendor has not, it seems, left the Marcoses. --By Pico Iyer...
...Kennedy deepened our involvement, reiterating the "domino theory," the dubious notion that the collapse of Vietnam would spark a global wave of communist triumphs. As he escalated the commitment, Lyndon Johnson cautioned, in his typically gaudy rhetoric, that defeat would compel us to retreat to the beaches of Waikiki; his aides, whether or not they believed it, dutifully echoed the party line. Only afterward did Robert S. McNamara, the former Defense Secretary and a pivotal architect of the war, confess that "we were wrong, terribly wrong"?cold comfort for the families of the 60,000 names on the Vietnam Memorial...
...Kennedy deepened our involvement, reiterating the "domino theory," the dubious notion that the collapse of Vietnam would spark a global wave of communist triumphs. As he escalated the commitment, Lyndon Johnson cautioned, in his typically gaudy rhetoric, that defeat would compel us to retreat to the beaches of Waikiki; his aides, whether or not they believed it, dutifully echoed the party line. Only afterward did Robert S. McNamara, the former Defense Secretary and a pivotal architect of the war, confess that "we were wrong, terribly wrong"--cold comfort for the families of the 60,000 names on the Vietnam Memorial...