Word: leas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...acre, stream-laced state park, is "glistening water." There are lao (valley of dawning inspiration), Kapilau (sprinkle of rain on leaves), Lanilili (rippling surface) and Waiakoa (waters used by warrior). Kaanapali is "rolling cliffs." It is comforting when boating off Wailea to know that the "waters [are] governed by Lea," goddess of canoe making. Lahaina is "land of prophecies...
Children are also heeding the Pied Piper's call to wok and roll in the kitchen. From the capital's Georgetown Day School to 30 department-store seminars?organized in 15 states by Philadelphia's Lea Bramnick and Rita Simon?the generation gap is being bridged with sauce and stockpot. Says Simon: "Children who have learned how to shop in a supermarket become demons of perfection, picking fruit that is ripe, examining vegetables for soft spots, watching the best buys...
...over the information forever. They have no legal right to inspect most private files to contest or correct them. Nor can they prevent the records from being shared among banks, credit bureaus and insurance companies, or shown to employers. or turned over to law enforce ment agencies. Says Douglas Lea, counsel to the Senate Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights: "Privacy is power. What we're really talking about is whether the Government and other large organizations will have power over the individual." Warns California Congressman Barry Goldwater Jr.: "With out a sense of privacy, the Bill of Rights guarantees cease...
...council meeting last Wednesday heard J. Woodland Hastings, master of North House, and Giles Constable, Lea Professor of Medieval History, who spoke against the proposal, after hearing the plan's proponents in previous weeks...
...November, 1973, Giles Constable '50, Lea Professor of Medieval History, wrote a letter to Dean Rosovsky and fellow faculty members proposing that Widener be turned into a non-circulating library. The proposal, he wrote, was contingent on expanding Widener's reading space and extending its hours...