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Beginning on the outskirts of the city, seemingly every knoll and grassy patch sprouts a grove of flagpoles with pale green, blue and white banners blazing a trail to the Munich Games. On the horizon, the bright blue Bavarian sky is pierced by the futuristic Olympic Tower, a 943-ft. skymark for the Games. Below, sprawling over 740 undulating acres, is the Olympic Park, a verdant retreat with a boating lake, broad tree-lined walkways and facilities for more than two-thirds of the 195 events* on the Olympic agenda. Three of the largest venues are partially under one "roof...
...hard try at a show of spirit, did not quite cover the underlying weariness of the people--a weariness exaggerated by a weekend of rain. The target of the actions planned for the afternoon--the White House--lay obscured from the view of the ralliers, just beyond a grassy knoll. The 4900 police put on alert for the demonstration also lay obscured...
Kevin was finally found on a grassy knoll that had been thoroughly searched twice before. Michael Murphy, a member of the Rocky Mountain Rescue Group, based in Boulder, Colo., discovered him sleeping quietly in the morning sun the eleventh day he was missing. Murphy walked to the boy who had eluded so many for so long: "Hi, Kevin. Do you want to go home?" The soft reply...
...having fun. A new playground for them, and a model for other institutions like theirs, has been built with funds provided by the Office of Economic Opportunity. The 120-ft. by 40-ft. area contains an artificial waterfall under which the youngsters can walk or ride, a grassy knoll up which they can crawl, and a periscope through which they can peer over the fence. Shallow pools are set waist high so that wheelchair patients can bathe their dolls or sail their boats, and a huge foam-rubber mattress cushions a play pit for the more disabled. To give...
...tried to charge the gates, shouting: "Those are my brothers in there." Another, furious, threw his plastic M-16 at the gates; it shattered into pieces. A later visit was more successful. Some 300 veterans marched to Arlington single file, five yards apart, dropping wreaths on a knoll inside the cemetery. As they knelt for a moment of silence, three memorial rifle shots rang out at a nearby funeral and a bugle sounded taps...