Word: leon
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Having noted that much testimony could sensibly be taken over the telephone, California Judge Leon Emerson during the past year has been using a unique new courtroom tool: a speakerphone. The instrument is sensitive enough to pick up the courtroom questions of defense and prosecuting attorneys. The witness is sworn over the loudspeaker telephone, and his voice is amplified so that everyone can hear what he says...
...apostles of self-renewal often go back to school to retool their skills. At 43, Los Angeles Aerospace Engineer Leon Elder wants a master's degree in management; last spring he budgeted $12,000 a year in savings to support his family, quit his job and enrolled full time at U.C.L.A. Elder happily matches report cards with his children ("A great way to bridge the generation gap"), foresees a higher-paid business future-or he may teach...
...year ago, Dr. Leon Kruger was just about the most sought-after pediatrician in the prosperous Boston suburb of Newton. At 46, Kruger earned $50,000 a year, sent his children to some of the nation's finest suburban public schools, owned a ten-room house filled with costly art objects. But he felt that he should be treating poor instead of rich patients. Now Kruger has quit Newton, moved to the Mississippi Delta hamlet of Mound Bayou (pop. 1,354), where he runs a federally financed clinic for impoverished Negroes, some of them literally starving. The move cost...
...were killed at a compound near Ban Me Thuot in the Central Highlands, where the CMA ran a school and a leprosarium. According to survivors' accounts, the attack began before dawn when North Vietnamese sappers blew up a home in the center of the compound. The two occupants, Leon Griswold, 66, a retired insurance salesman from White Plains, N.Y., who had turned missionary, and his daughter Carolyn, 41, a youth worker, were fatally injured...
Pulitzer Prize-winner Leon Kirchner, Walter Bigelow Rosen Professor of Music, will conduct the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra in the Boston area premiere of his Second Piano Concerto tonight...