Word: stalker
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...islands are as delightful to the philologist as they are to the bird watcher or plant stalker. All Hawaiian place names have meanings, poetic or factual. Maui's Waianapanapa, site of a 120-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...
...sounds like a great deal of water being whooshed through a pipe," Judy Stalker, a secretary in the Widener business office who has heard the sound several times, said yesterday...
...only quick glimpse preserved on film is a 20 foot, 16 mm color sequence made by Sasquatch stalker Roger Patterson in 1967. The first few seconds are blurred and shaky, as Patterson, thrown by his horse, runs toward the Sasquatch and tries to frame. Then there are a few dramatic seconds of clarity, as the Sasquatch strides along a river bed. At the end of the sequence she (the sex is suggested, by hairy, pendulous breasts) walks placidly back into the underbrush...