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...closed its down, had to build a new one. But the ABC structure--complete with studio and panoramic plate-glass windows for viewing the launch--was installed backwards. It faced not pad 39A, from which the shuttle blasts off, but a swamp. So ABC had to call a crane to turn the entire two-story pine box around...
...sassafras. One solution would be stronger enforcement of existing laws that prohibit removal, transportation and sale of imperiled plants. But conservationists face a prickly task in persuading lawmakers to vote funds to save the cactus, which cannot compare in political sex appeal with such threatened creatures as the whooping crane and the blue whale. -By Michael Demarest. Reported by Robert C. Wurmstedt/Lajitas...
Workmen assembled the crane 200 yds, north of the Square yesterday afternoon and drove it down Mass Ave into the Square late last night...
...lift the 40-ton structure. Perini rented a Manitowoc crane with a 100-foot boom and a 165-ton lifting capacity. Walter A. Viglione, Perini superintendent, said yesterday...
Viglione said the crane would lift the building into a harness of cables and three steel beams. The move would "take coordination." Viglione said, adding. "Hopefully it will go fine. I don't anticipate any problems...