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...they cleaned the trash from the cellars of the Philips record-company offices in Paris, workmen found a battered box containing 45 master records (78s), pressed between 1940 and 1942 by Chanteuse Edith Piaf, who died a year ago at 47. Made in her prime, before illness and alcohol dulled her voice, the records include melodies, such as Fais-Moi Valser and Le Vagabond, that "the Sparrow" made famous onstage but was miracle," never said a known to Philips have cut. executive. "It's "We a don't know how they got there. Perhaps a technician...
...City of Cambridge had one of its most enjoyable summers in a long while. Its Water Department workmen ripped up nearly every street and sidewalk in the Harvard Square area during a pipe cleaning operation. Cambridge water mains are over 100 years old, and William H. McGuinness, superintendent of the Cambridge Water Department, hopes the present cleaning and relining operation will make them good for another hundred years
...after dark, when traffic diminishes, that Tokyo really begins to build. Bulldozers and steamrollers emerge like nocturnal predators; the smell of hot tar and the chatter of jackhammers shatter the night. In Shinjuku, Tokyo's Greenwich Village, and along the Ginza, an army of orangehelmeted workmen swarms out to remove temporary planks covering the streets, while trailer trucks roar up to dump fuming loads of fill into yawning caverns. Thousands of lights sway in the evening breeze, sending crooked shadows under the neon. At dawn, the trucks and workers disappear like cockroaches. Then the city's kamikaze...
With a burst of furious energy, Egyptian workmen last week completed a three-story, air-conditioned hotel in Alexandria. They raised some 12,000 flags over lampposts and public squares, built 200 triumphal arches, and draped buildings with hundreds of banners car rying slogans of Arab solidarity. As special beach cabins went up on the golden sands of the Mediterranean shore, other workmen dusted and polished furniture and chandeliers in the vast Muntazah Palace and tended 325 acres of gardens...
...urged Italian Sculptor Giacomo Manzù to get on with a Vatican commission for new bronze doors for the left-hand side of St. Peter's façade. Manzù, who comes from Bergamo, Pope John's birthplace, listened and obeyed. Last month workmen hoisted the ten-ton bronze portals into place...