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...enough ships in the West Indies in 1781 to retain command of the /western Atlantic. But first he went off on an orgy of legalized piracy to seize and loot the rich little Dutch colony of St. Eustatius. Then, complaining that he was suffering from "the gout and the gravel," he sailed back to England in the luxury of one of his biggest ships...
AFRICA. You can sit in a tree house sipping cool drinks or stand in a gravel clearing surrounded by African huts and cages containing monkeys and listen to the jungle drums and watch warrior dances...
Peter Cummings '65 was driving to a freedom school in Benton City when his car slid on some gravel on a curve of deserted Marshall County Road. The car flipped over, knocking down a few trees. Cummings suffered minor cuts and bruises when his knee went through the windshield, but was able to continue on to the freedom school after local Negroes helped him get his car back on the road...
...AFRICAN PAVILION is the swingingest -and the noisiest-place at the fair. For $1 you can walk past monkeys, giraffes, and native objets d'art into a gravel clearing surrounded by African huts flying the flags of 24 small nations, there watch red-robed Royal Burundi drummers, Olatunji and his passion drums, and gaily garbed Watusi warrior dancers...
...strides to the window and-wham! The chief inspector (Herbert Lorn) bursts through the bedroom door, the bedroom door clouts Clouseau in the suffix, Clouseau takes off as though there were lead as well as copper in his alloy. When next seen he is digging himself out of a gravel driveway two stories below and cringing as the chief inspector scornfully adds insult to injury. "Clouseau!" the old brute bellows. "You're off the case...