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Bass and Arthur R. Kroeber '84 placed them there after weighting them down with gravel. Nevertheless, several of the surviving penguins migrated from the grass to the facade of Robinson, the gate fronting Quincy St. and the trees in the quadrangle...
Hovering 1,000 ft. in the air, the first helicopter took gunfire. "It was like gravel raining on a pan," said Johnston. The pilot tried to maneuver away from the barrage, but could not. One bullet destroyed the helicopter radio. Another tore through the floor and exited through the roof, narrowly missing Chiles and clipping one of the rotor blades. Since the gunfire made an immediate landing impossible, the pilot carefully veered the crippled helicopter back to an army base. The second helicopter had also come under fire...
...Johnny Cash, 51, stone-faced country and western singer; to avoid chemical dependency; in the Betty Ford Center of Eisenhower Medical Center; in Rancho Mirage, Calif. Fearful that he might become hooked on drugs after taking prescribed painkillers for sciatic nerve spasms and surgery on a bleeding ulcer, the gravel-voiced Cash checked himself into a rehabilitation program...
...east end of the park has been painted dark (she was gold and white in different eras). One of the massive elms has died. Yet the grassy areas are as they were-four neat lawns cut in the shape of piano tops, on which no ballplaying is permitted. The gravel paths are the same, as are the benches, set at proper distances from one another to combine privacy with friendliness. Outside the park, the houses look pretty much the same as well. And the feeling of the neighborhood persists. People who have known each other for years pause...
DIED. Michael Conrad, 62, gravel-voiced actor who won two Emmy Awards for his portrayal of Sergeant Phil Esterhaus, the garrulous, gruffly avuncular police officer, who cautioned his patrolmen each week to "be careful out there" on television's Hill