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Stones' previous U.S. record (7 ft. 7¼ in.) was set in 1976, four days, unfortunately, after his second bronze Olympics. In Montreal, he griped about the stadium's (still) unfinished roof for a week, and ended up being psyched-out by a rain spot on the runway. Similarly noisy and self-destructive were his signature quarrels with amateur athletic officials, who declared him a professional in 1978 for taking $33,633 over the table in a televised "superstars" competition. When it started to appear that Stones would be shut out of an amateur's income...
...reconstruction scheduled for completion in October, will rebuild the basement and third floors of the three story building. The third floor will also be extended onto the roof of the two story building next door...
...publicly asserted that neither the Virgin birth nor the Resurrection need be taken too literally, was formally consecrated as Bishop of Durham in York Min- ster amid cries of protest. Less than three days later, in the early hours of the morning, lightning forked down on the wooden roof of the minster's 13th century south transept. By 2:30 a.m., flames were leap- ing from the medieval masterpiece that is the largest Gothic cathedral in Northern Europe...
...fire raged, members of the minster staff worked together in the burning building to salvage tapestries, candlesticks, altar crosses and whole pews. Eventually the smoke and heat forced them to withdraw, and the south transept's entire roof "collapsed like a pack of dominoes," in the words of one clergyman. After three hours, firemen managed to bring the blaze under control. They also succeeded in preventing the fire from spreading through the rest of the church. As daylight crept into the now roofless transept, the full scope of the tragedy became apparent: littered with six-foot-high piles...
...Manhattan, Arquitectonica faced the problem of considerably enlarging a seven-story brick apartment house without disturbing it. The solution: a slim, new, 35-story tower that straddles the old building. The new building is abruptly interrupted by a kind of roof garden with a domed swimming pool and a jogging track. Arquitectonica plans to deck out the building's façade in a bold, Mari-mekko-like pattern of white glass, black marble and red-enameled metal...