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...prepares to step in, Ichiro betrays no awareness that he's enduring his longest drought?0 for 13?of the season. No, as always, Ichiro spends his time running through at least six different stretches. "Same thing every time," says Mariners outfielder Charles Gipson. "He never gets out of the zone...
...soon got the attention of the entire plane. "He just went ballistic," says Christy Gipson, who was sitting in front of him. Passengers heard him yelling, "I can fly this plane!" as he rushed up the aisle. "We've got to open the door!" After he had been subdued, an off-duty police officer in the rear of the plane offered to help. A row of seats was cleared so the officer and another man could guard Burton during the plane's landing. But as Burton was being led to the back, he flailed his arms, pushed his captors aside...
...week Michael Gipson did not dare to leave the three-room apartment he shared with his girlfriend and their infant son in Rockwell Gardens, the public-housing project with the highest crime rate in Chicago. Gipson rightly feared that the Chicago Housing Authority would throw him out because his name was not on the apartment's lease. His solution: marry his girlfriend and become an official tenant...
...impending weddings of Gipson, 32, and Laticia Wilson, 22, and as many as 16 other Rockwell Gardens couples are the unexpected result of the CHA's belated attempt to make the city's notorious public housing safe for its 150,000 residents. Last month Vincent Lane, the energetic new head of the CHA, posted round-the-clock guards to prevent anyone without a tenant identification card from remaining overnight...
...officials' response ranged from befuddlement to obstructionism as the community delegation presented 12 demands, including a "hot line" on community problems, regulations on police conuct, suspension of the cop who arrested Gipson, appointment of several black city officials, tenants representation on the public housing board, and pressure from the mayor on the banks to make loans for housing available to blacks...