Word: spans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...famous British artifacts that brought the Queen Mary to Long Beach, Calif., as a floating museum. Last week the same yen 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...
Over the centuries there have been six London Bridges; the one that Mc Culloch bought is only the latest to follow the nursery rhyme and come "falling down." The first span to have its destruction commemorated in song was wrecked in a raid by Olaf the Norwegian in 1014. London decided a year ago to replace the present bridge because it was not only too small to accommodate today's traffic, but was sinking into the riverbed at a rate of 1 in. every eight years. Plans for a new bridge on the old site are already under...
...dining room has to be completely closed down," Pusey said in an April 16 letter sent to Thomas J. Shields '69, House committee chairman, and Peter W. Schandorff '68, "...we want to schedule the work in such a way as to reduce the span of incovenience to the minimum period...
...fact that for the last four years Boston University and eastern collegiate hockey supremacy have been synonymous is common knowledge. During that span, the Terriers have not only captured one national, three ECAC and two Beanpot championships, but they have also been victorious in nine of 11 meetings against Harvard as well. Few people realize, however, that one of the major cogs in the B.U. machine these past few years, All-American defenseman and junior co-captain Jack O'Callahan, nearly spent four years on this side of the Charles River...
...COUSTEAU (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). "Search in the Deep." The oceanauts of the Calypso journey to the Island of Europa in the Mozambique Channel, foremost breeding ground of giant green sea turtles, those mysterious and ancient armored behe moths that sometimes grow to 800 Ibs. and the span of two arms' lengths across their shells...