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a few days of intense physical labor, I had an opprotunity to write letters all too long overdue, review physics and mathematics andread the newspapers, in this case the Honolulu Advertiser.

IMPRESSIONS OF HONOLULU: I visited Honolulu twice and the second trip still did not change my impression of the city. It is one great big bawdy carnival swarming with servicemen. A ten o'clock curfew is imposed on everyone, civilians and servicemen alike who are required to be off the streets at that hour.All the talk about Waikiki was just that - unadulterated baloney. (Perhaps as a civilian, I thought, It would  ^[[have]] be^[[en]] different) Some of the more striking things about Honolulu were the women barbers, the long lines at the bus stops, the bars and stores closing at 4 p.m., the theatres selling tickets only just before regularly scheduled performances, the trouble between civilians and servicemen which is bound to spring up as result of overcrowding and war tensions,the filthy pictures sold at souvenir shops, the paper money stamped "Hawaii", the barefoot native children running around the city streets, the close-packed back streets of the city and the poor transportation. About 9:30 p.m. there would be concerted rush away from the city which clogged the roads. Added impressions: The cute, doll-faced, well formed Japanese girls. The theatres are always crowded, there are relatively few white women; most of the servicemen go out with the native girls for just one thing - and they usually get it. Once while driving away from Honolulu, we