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Another feature of the Keeton-O'Connell plan requires insurance companies to pay only the balance of a victim's economic losses such as time off the job and doctor bills not already paid for by such outside sources as Workmen's Compensation and Blue Cross...
...Workmen shifted the three caskets in the evening gloom, laboring under harsh spotlights. Among the few spectators were Senators Robert and Edward Kennedy, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and Boston's Richard Cardi nal Gushing. After a crane lifted the caskets to their new site, Gushing intoned a brief prayer, then wept. So did the Kennedy brothers...
...Workmen hauling a rare 11th century Cambodian statue from an elevator let it fall and broke its nose. Next, a thief slipped into the museum and made off with a 19th century Japanese scroll. Then an epidemic of "bronze disease" corrosion broke out twice among the priceless Buddhas. And what's worse, the roof leaked. All that was a bit much for Millionaire Builder Avery Brundage, 79, president of the international Olympic committee and one of the world's foremost collectors of Oriental art, who donated his $30 million hoard of treasures to the city of San Francisco...
...sunshine was dazzling, and the windows--all five floors of them--sparkled. Workmen had spent all morning removing thousands of square feet of Tuesday's snow, so that the walks, terraces and courtyards were clear...
...such beaten paths as Geneva, Dublin, Frankfurt and Vienna, most of its 36 hotels have altered the skyline of such places as Abidjan, Amman, Bali, Bangkok, Djakarta, Monrovia and Dacca. The formula-an oasis in the ham-and-egg-less desert-has proved so successful that last week workmen were busy with major expansions of six InterContinental hotels. Completely new additions to the chain were rising at Lahore and Rawalpindi in Pakistan, Nicaragua's Managua, and Auckland, N.Z. This month the company will break ground in Manila, and architects are drafting plans for hotels in Victoria Falls and Lusaka...