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...London Bridge is going up," sang the 58-voice elementary school chorus. It was indeed, but more for the purpose of attracting tourists than accommodating traffic. The city of London had sold its slowly sinking span for stone-by-stone reconstruction in Lake Havasu City, Ariz., a new town of 3,000 on the Colorado River, and Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Lord Mayor of London, was there for the cornerstone laying. Resplendent in black velvet and heavy gold braid and accompanied by his official sword-bearer and macebearer, he was honored by Governor Jack Williams at a dinner for 400, including...
...gave London Bridge an even more improbable future home: the Arizona desert. For $2,460,000, California-based McCulloch Oil Corp. purchased the 136-year-old River Thames span from the City of London. The company will reassemble the 1,005-ft. structure over a canal at Lake Havasu City, a resort, light-industry and retirement town...
...back together. In addition to the purchase price, McCulloch figures that it will cost at least another $3,000,000 to transport and rebuild its prize. To give the bridge a suitable setting, the company will dredge a mile-long cut across the neck of a Lake Havasu City peninsula that juts out into the 45-mile-long lake behind Parker Dam, surround the area with a golf course, marina, motels and inns...
...brand-new bridge," admits McCulloch President C. V. Wood Jr., "but that wouldn't have tourist appeal." In fact, when the bridge is up in 1971, Wood confidently expects the investment to help the town draw 4.5 million tourists a year-ten times the number that visited Lake Havasu City last year...
Outboard racers call Lake Havasu's four-mile course "the toughest in the U.S.," and last week's eight-hour race was a battle for survival. Within two hours, 26 boats were out of action, including Ogle's catamaran. Craig Breed-love's U-707 flipped and catapulted him out of the cockpit. With Teammates Cooper and Ramos handling the wheel, Reagan's Rayson Craft opened up a 6-mi. lead; then, with an hour and a half to go, Mike took over. It was eventful: the boat's dashboard collapsed, and Reagan...