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...outriggers, which stabilized an unmanned Lorain crane poised near the edge of the 172-ft. hole. The huge crane rolled through a wooden railing, toppled over backwards. Then, while crews watched helplessly, the boom toppled and the crane slid over the silo's lip. It hurtled downward, brushed workmen and scaffolding off the sides of the hole, crashed in flames at the bottom, killing a total of six and injuring...
...Vatican radio station), Pope John XXIII came upon the highest point in Vatican City, admired the vista and the ancient Tower of Porta Pertusa. "What a pity," he sighed, as he saw the ramshackle remains of the 60-foot tower. "This is such a lovely place." Within weeks, workmen began restoring the 500-year-old structure, which will be equipped with an elevator for what insiders said would become the Pontiff's summer retreat for meditation and for private audiences with relatives and intimates...
...Great Mother. In the last days of the six weeks of excavation, Mellaart's team of 40 Turkish workmen uncovered what he considers the expedition's most "revolutionary" find: a group of 40 female clay statuettes, all of the Asian Great Mother goddess, but naturalistically carved in a variety of poses. They show the deity as a young girl and mature woman, lying down, squatting asleep with a child on her lap and seated on a leopard throne. Some of the figurines have grotesquely exaggerated pendulous breasts and normally proportioned thighs and buttocks; others reverse the goddess...
...undergraduates had dressed up as policemen and would arrive rather than by what they do--achieve-shortly to make him stop work on that section of road. Thereupon, the jokesters took off to the nearest police station where they informed the constabulary that some irresponsible undergraduates, masquerading as workmen, were tearing the road to pieces. The conspirators then hid. It didn't take long for both sides to discover the trick but the confusion was magnificent while it lasted...
...defeated traditionalists is the possibility that the new hotels and halls may suffer the same fate as a recently built steel institute in Kharkov. Last spring, according to the Economic Gazette, cracks began to appear in the institute's walls, and panels slid off the facade. Workmen hastily shored up the damaged section. Then, last month the right wing of the institute collapsed. Investigators belatedly discovered that the builders had forgotten to install drainpipes. Rain seeped into the walls and pillars, froze solid in a cold spell and turned to water again in a thaw, thus bringing down...