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...Rock." The term has been a designation for many places by men suffering from civic disability-Alcatraz, Guam, Oahu-but the old original Rock was Gibraltar, that whale-headed monolith that was a minor prize and major symbol of the British Empire in its grandest days. Mocked the anti-imperialist Catholic poet Chesterton: "Gibraltar's a rock that you see very plain, and attached to its base is the district of Spain...
Gaze of Respect. In the last exile in Hawaii, the now toothless "Tiger of Korea" lived on the donations of the local Korean community, first in a seaside cottage on Oahu, then, after a severe stroke in 1962, in a Honolulu hospital. There he died last week at the age of 90. His body was flown back to Seoul on board a special U.S. Air Force transport. Wary of possible repercussions among groups still bitter at Rhee's memory, President Chung Hee Park prepared Korea's second highest honor, a "people's funeral," instead of the full...
...nets so ragged that they no longer stop sharks, only surfers. At Huntington Beach, Calif., the gasser is "pier shooting" - hurtling between the concrete pilings of a pier. But these pastimes are only makeshift substitutes for riding the "heavies" off Makaha, a lonely beach on the west coast of Oahu that is every surfer's idea of paradise...
Unlike past building booms, this one has jumped from bustling Oahu (the island on which Honolulu is located) to the rest of the archipelago. On Hawaii Island, largest in the group, a $2,000,000 shopping center will rise near Hilo and a 150-room Hilton hotel at Kailua-Kona. On Maui, work has begun on a seven-story, 100-room addition to the Wailuku Hotel. The building boom and the prospect of more tourists also aid other industries. Four new mattress factories have been opened, and Schlitz is about to build a 100,000-barrels-a-year brewery near...
...incising iron. "My graphics," says he, "have the sensation of handwriting on a sponge." The handwriting ends up on the wall for less than $100. In Hawaii recently, an art student produced an edition of 16-ft.-long prints off incised Masonite. He wanted to illustrate the history of Oahu on a large scale. Graphics no longer are limited by the size of presses...