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Roofers take break
Three workmen take a break on the ledge of Green Hall. They have been working on reroofing Green Hall for more than a semester.
POZZUOLI, Italy (UPI)—More than 10,000 inhabitants of this ancient Roman seaford sepped Tuesday in fear of an earthquake, but thousands more remained behind in defiance of orders to go.
Italian citizens flee quake
Hundreds of slum dwellers scuffled with police during demonstrations outside City Hall, shouting they would rather die in their ramshackle tenement buildings than leave.
Daley gives no apology
Instead, Daley said, compliments were due to Chicagoans in connection with Pompidou's visit
CHICAGO (UPI) — Mayor Richard J. Daley said Monday he knows of no incident during the weekend visit of French President Georges Pompidou to Chicago that requires an apology.
President Nixon apologized to Pompidou Monday for demonstrations in Chicago Saturday, but Daley said he thought Chicago police did an excellent job of controlling crowds.
Hours after the White House announced Nixon had apologized for the "discourtesy" shown the French chief of state by some 10,000 Chicagoans protesting the French sale of jets to Libya. Daley issued the following statement:
The Moorish kingdom of Toledo was annexed to the kingdom of Castile in the 11th Century.
"Nothing occurred in Chicago during the visit of President Pompidou for which anyone is required to apologize. My own feeling is that compliments are due those who turned out to demonstrate for the orderly manner in which they exercised their rights as American citizens. The Chicago Police Department fulfilled its responsibilities to both the visitors and the citizens in an exemplary manner."
Several persons suffered cuts and bruises in the scuffles and police reported several cases of hysteria as demonstrators chanted: "We want our houses" and "We will not go."
Authorities ordered about 6,000 persons to leave Monday night after scientists said nine slight earthquakes rippled through the city. None caused any damage or casualties.
The city, known as the birthplace of film star Sophia Loren and as the place where the apostle Paul first stepped ashore in imperial Rome, already was panicky because of a rare geological phenomenon known as "slow earthquake" or, in scientific language, Bradyseism.
The city of 68,685 has risen, according to scientists, at least 28 inches since last fall and at least 39 inches since 1968.
London Bridge goes up in Lake Havasa City
LAKE HAVASU CITY, Ariz.
(UPI)—"London Bridge is going up, going up, going up..."
So sang the school children of Lake Havasu City on Sept. 23, 1968, when the lord mayor of London, Sir Gilbert Inglefield, presided at the laying of the foundation stone of London Bridge in the historic old span's unlikely new home—in Arizona sands along the Colorado River.
The song was a little premature then but today the transplanted bridge is in fact beginning to take root and ere long will begin to take shape.
Within a few weeks, stone masons will begin fitting pieces of quarried British granite to the footings of the bridge, which will span a channel at the edge of Lake Havasu on the Colorado. Workmen are now putting the finishing touches on oval-shaped concrete footings which will form the bases for the five arches of the old bridge.
McCulloch Oil Corp., which is developing the planned community of Lake Havasu City, purchased London Bridge on April 18, 1968, from the Corporation of London for $2,460,000.
The bridge, dismantled stone by stone for shipment to the United States, is to be replaced by a new structure over the Thames.
Not all of the stone from the original bridge will find its way to the Arizona desert, but much has and "London Bridge" in Arizona eventually will look virtually the same as the original to the casual observer.
There will be some changes between the old and the new. The bridge will not be as wide as the original because the pedestrian walks at the edge will not be needed here. And only the facing stones, decorative railing, balustrades and corbels will be used.
Whereas the entire bridge in London was built of quarried granite blocks, the new bridge will be of poured reinforced concrete, with the facing blocks fitted on the outside.
Carl Baker, who is directing the bridge construction project for McCulloch, said the target date for completion of the structure is May, 1971.
The McCulloch firm is counting heavily on the bridge as a tourist attraction for the new community. It is estimated the project will cost nearly $7 million, not counting a planned multi-million dollar resort hotel and complex of shops which will surround the base of the bridge at the eastern end.
Pari-mutuel betting touted as source of state revenue
TOPEKA (UPI) — Pari-mutuel betting was touted as a source of new state revenue and scorned as a corrupting influence Tuesday in a house committee hearing.
Proponents and opponents both appeared during the nearly two-hour hearing on the measure which would legalize pari-mutuel betting on horse and dog racing in Kansas. The bill, which has passed the senate, is in the House Federal and State Affairs Committee.
Sen. Jack Robinson, R-Wichita, chief booster of the pari-mutuel bill in the legislature, presented arguments for the measure.
Robinson said pari-mutual betting would probably raise $4 million annually for the state and
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Glenn W. Landis, of Westphalia, Kan., with the Kansas Racing Association, noted gambling already exists at Kansas horse and dog tracks, and this bill would put this betting under state regulation.
under provisions of the bill this revenue would fund the homestead property tax relief plan for elderly Kansans. The homestead bill is currently in a conference committee.
No arson suspects found
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (UPI) - District Attorney David Minier said Tuesday he expects to seek at least 20 felony indictments in the rioting at Isla Vista last week but that so far there are no definite suspects in the burning of a Bank of America building.
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