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...with chalk he diagrams each block with the outlines of the dozen or more stones that must be cut from it. "The great trick is not to waste any. They are very expensive and they cost as much to ship as to buy. We have to squeeze out every inch." Gibson spent two years in The Bronx as a monk in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. Inside the cathedral, he will tell you, he soars beyond the "furthest reaches of space...
...seems made of cannonballs. "I was an impatient person before I came here," he says with a grin. "Now I'm building something to last ten thousand years." Then he's off in a flurry of stone chips as he puts down his first draft, a half-inch cut, the width of the chisel, along the stone's edge. When he began with Bambridge, it took him three days to make an ashlar. Now he can turn one out in 15 minutes. Jamieson, an ex-butcher, has completed 18 months of his four-year apprenticeship. He finished...
...member in a stunning by-election victory on April 9. But Speaker of the House George Thomas omitted the usual expressions of bereavement and extended no sympathy to the relatives. That break with tradition matched the tough mood of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who had refused to move an inch in the face of Sands' demands. Said Thatcher crisply: "Mr. Sands was a convicted criminal. He chose to take his own life. It was a choice his organization did not allow many of their victims...
...outdone by the seniors, Garth Andrade, Jim Mullen and Joe Bowen put together a sweep in the javelin, with Andrade winning it with a throw of 193 ft. 11 1/2 in. Not bad, considering the two-inch deep mud in the infield...
...many laws that must be enacted to produce a final economic package. Still, any consensus that develops this week could critically influence the legislation. That is why Ronald Reagan's first national address since a gunman's bullet missed his heart by a mere one inch was aptly timed...