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...state have any unisex toilets appeared in public places as a result of the ERA. "I lived in Florida before moving to Hawaii, and the misconceptions over ERA were incredible," says Alice Ball, president of the Oahu YWCA. "I wish I could bring those people over to Hawaii to see how well it's working. ERA doesn't solve everything, but it has cleared out some of the undergrowth...
...Calcutta, Maui (pop. 54,000) is the second biggest, second youngest (some 15 million years old) of the 132 islands of the 50th and southernmost state. Maui County attracts more visitors than any other of the islands (1,414,867 in 1978, up 12.5% over the previous year). Oahu (Waikiki Beach, Pearl Harbor) is seriously overbuilt and overcrowded; Hawaii ("the Big Island") is famed for its volcanoes and rugged natural beauty but has few beaches and little action for the tourist; Kauai has great, uncrowded, golden beaches and a lush interior but not much else; Molokai also has superb beaches...
...Oahu rocked with excitement on the night of Dec. 28 as Harvard Shocked everyone, battling Arizona State to a 67-67 tie at the end of regulation time. Only a 20-ft. Johnny Nash jumper with no time showing on the clock kept Arizona State alive, forcing the tie and an overtime shoot...
...recognize this. It was not until 1969 that the government of the fledgling state of Hawaii took the final bold step of abolishing isolation-in effect, flinging the prison doors wide open. The patients at Kalaupapa and at Hale Mohalu, a hospital and treatment center in Pearl City on Oahu, were free to leave or to come and go as they pleased...
...everyone has lost. The Oahu grand jury has indicted both keepers for grand theft. The Kewalo Basin's director, Louis M. Herman, discounts the argument that the experiments were heinous: scientists were teaching the mammals to understand two-word sentences by means of computer beeps, and the dolphins were on the verge of learning three-word sentences. All that research, which cost close to $500,000, is down the drain. Worse, says Herman. Kea and Puka, untrained to feed themselves and unable to communicate with Pacific dolphins, are doubtless dead by now, the victims of starvation, sharks -and mindless...