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...Karen De Young of the Washington Post assumed a position on the floor of the Jeep like quadruplets in utero, with our luggage stacked over our heads against the windows. For five minutes, the Jeep shook from the mortar rounds landing near by. Bullets ricocheted off the gravel road...
...more popular than his party, even though he frequently confounded the country with his prominence on the international stage-mediating distant disputes, pleading the cause of the Third World, supporting the Palestine Liberation Organization although he is of Jewish extraction-and his penchant for lecturing Austrians in his gravel voice like an irascible Opa, or grandpapa...
MARRIED. Kris Kristofferson, 46, gravel-throated singer-songwriter (Me and Bobby McGee, Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down) and actor (Heaven's Gate, Rollover); and Lisa Meyers, thirtyish, a recent Pepperdine law school graduate; he for the third time, she for the second; in Malibu, Calif...
...temple's structural integrity, continually threatened by Java's heavy rains. Under the leaning balustrades went reinforced concrete slabs. To prevent water from undermining the hill upon which Borobudur sits, the engineers installed hidden drain pipes to replace the gargoyle spouts provided by the ancients. Finally, gravel, tar, epoxy and lead were layered under the stones to protect them and the foundation from seepage. Says Indonesian Archaeologist Soekmono, 60, known among his countrymen as the Guardian of Borobudur: "The structure is engineered to last another 1,000 years...
Today, as Lamont University Professor, the gravel-voiced labor specialist has only a modest-sized office in the Littauer Center but he carries the same double burden that he has throughout his career. At Harvard Dunlop now leads a seminar on labor-government relations designed for doctoral candidates in the Business School and the Economics Departments. In addition, he teaches in the Trade Union Program, which brings national and international trade union leaders to Harvard for 12 weeks of seminars...