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...generations, Hawaii's business community was tightly controlled by the islands' haole (Caucasian) first families through a web of interlocking marriages and directorates. With clerkships the top jobs offered to them by most haole firms, Hawaiians of mixed blood turned to running hui-syndicates in which one astute businessman administers the pooled resources of the members. So successful a hui manager was Chinn Ho that he cracked Hawaii's bamboo curtain and gained a toehold in the haole establishment; he was the'first Oriental named a trustee of one of Hawaii's landed estates...
...their full-throated approval: "What was beautiful is now ugly! What was ugly is now beautiful!" It was International Women's Day, and no fewer than 10,000 Hero Women and members of Women's Groups were on hand for the big rally. There was Hsu Hsueh-hui, who lost both hands "in a fight with Kuomintang bandits" and now wears an artificial pair made in the Soviet Union "especially for shaking hands with other people." Captain Chen Chi-yen ("The party made a pilot of me, a 32-year-old peasant girl") was there, and so were...
...tried a low, curving shell set with 133 ceiling lights (see color); for Shizuoka, he designed a hyperbolic paraboloid auditorium that holds an audience of 5,000. His Tokyo City Hall this year received the first International Grand Prix awarded by France's Architecture d'Aujourd'hui...
Brief In Quemoy, Judge Hu Tao-hui resigned under fire after he granted a divorce without hearing the husband's side, then later married the divorcee...
CHEN DUMPS AMERICANS WITH ONE JERK, trumpeted the headline in Hong Kong's Communist Wen Hui Pao last week. AMERICANS POWERLESS TO THREATEN CHEN CHING-KAI. Occasion for the rejoicing was a weight-lifting meet in Moscow, in which Red China's little (127 lbs.) Chen hoisted 326¼ lbs. in the clean-and-jerk to shatter the world featherweight record held by the U.S.'s Isaac Berger...