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...workmen peered closer, the horror got worse. Most rooms, it turned out, had to have new ceilings. Ornate 18th century cornices needed tedious repair and cleaning-with 40 coats of paint removed from some. Behind the paneling a two-inch-wide crack was found spreading through the brickwork...
...expensive as the jokes about him suggest. He charges only about $350 for custom suits. The vicuna suits crowd $450. If he had his druthers, he would sculpt all his fabled clients into what he calls the Sy Devore All-American Look. Jackets, cut a good inch and a half shorter than the average, have square shoulders and single buttons. There is no handkerchief pocket-Sy hates bulges. Trousers have frontier pockets (like dungarees), no hip pockets, no cuffs, no belt (or a half belt in cloth), and are three inches trimmer than a standard size at the knee...
...eight years the West German city of Duisburg has been sinking steadily-and Duisburg's anxious citizens have cheered every lost inch. In an engineering project of constantly increasing complexity, the city is being lowered on purpose, for Duisburg must sink to live...
...channel five, it was the absence of injured Y.A. Tittle that made the difference as the Pittsburgh Steelers pushed the New York Giants all around the 21-inch screen for a 31-0 win. Tittle's replacement, the over-hapless Ralph Guglielmi, looked especially awful as the Giants were shut out for the first time in 10 years. The defense, which held Pittsburgh to 13 points in first half, seemed to lose interest when it became clear that the Giants weren't going to score yesterday...
Most promising of the snail hunters is one of the world's messiest killers, a blind, translucent larva that is the aquatic young of a sciomyzid marsh fly. No species is more than three-quarters of an inch long, but they tear into the snails that are their natural prey with fierce abandon, ripping their flesh to ribbons with sharp mouth hooks...