Pumped Up for Event, Diver Finds Feat a B-r-r-eeze

--Brad Graske spent the day under the ice on McCarrons Lake at Roseville, Minn., and emerged with a very chilly ice-diving record. Graske, 30, exceeded the 1979 record by 14 hours. “The first eight hours were a breeze, the second eight hours, well . . . and the third eight hours we won’t talk about,” a shivering Graske said. He said the only time his underwater adventure was scary was when he temporarily lost communication and other divers brought him to the surface of the water, raising only his head and shoulders above the ice, so that the communication line in his helmet could be repaired. Graske said he wore two wetsuits during the dive, and warm water was constantly pumped between the two. An air compressor and backup scuba tanks sent oxygen. He passed the time reading magazines enclosed in plastic bags and playing with a magnetic checkerboard. Graske doesn’t recommend the sport for amateurs, and he won’t try it again “for about 100 years.” He raised about $1,000 for Make-a-Wish Minnesota, a nonprofit organization that sponsors trips for terminally ill children.

--When armed Spanish civil guards boarded an airliner carrying passengers who were unruly because of a three-hour delay at Madrid airport, British musician Raymond Simmons, traveling with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, soothed fiery feelings with an impromptu trumpet rendering of “Viva Espana.” As his 103 fellow musicians cheered and the passengers applauded, Simmons followed up with “Valencia” and “Lady of Spain.” When the Boeing 727 passengers eventually got to Valencia, they shook hands with Simmons and the rest of the orchestra, and then filed complaints about the flight delay.

--President Reagan’s four children, actor Charlton Heston, evangelist Billy Graham, a gaggle of corporate titans and politicians and a handful of media moguls were named to the board of governors of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation. The 102 board members, nominated by the trustees and approved by President Reagan and his wife, Nancy, will give advice on the direction, policy and conduct of the foundation. The foundation was formed a year ago to raise funds for the design, construction and endowment of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, to be located on the campus of Stanford University, and the Center for Public Affairs to be built on a site in the San Francisco Bay Area. The foundation’s trustees are headed by Chairman W. Glenn Campbell, director of the Hoover Institution at Stanford.