Views from the Top Steeplejack Clark scales height for flag pole
A veteran San Francisco steeplejack named Clark, famed for 36 years on 26 story towers, climbs the Fairmont Hotel flagpole with a bosun’s chair. He frees a snagged flag, hoists a new 12 foot flag, then descends to applause. He notes his versatility as rigger, mason and more to meet elite assignments.
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Fairmont Hotel
California Street
Nob Hill
Clark
Yars
Mason
Werk
Fairmont
Francisco
Ralph Ordan Clark
Ralph Dr. Clark
San Francisco
Britons win pay hike with poem to Callaghan
In MARKET DRAYTON England Beth and Bill Bourne 14 and 13 wrote a verse to Prime Minister James Callaghan asking for a 10 percent rise in weekly pocket money. Their father kept to the 10 percent cap but a secretary from Downing Street replied with a call for a productivity deal. The children returned with chores and their allowance rose to 75 pence a week after their dad granted the extra.
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Market Drayton
England
Beth
Bill Bourne
James Callaghan
Bill
Frank Bourne
Callaghan
Downing St
Jenny Jeger
Dad
Downing Street
Ft Wayne flood cleanup after rising St Joseph River
In Fort Wayne Indiana Sam Stephens an International Harvester plant inspector evacuated with about 2 000 others during the worst flood in 65 years Gov Otis Bowen asked President Carter for flood declarations and funds estimating 34 7 million dollars damage in Allen and Adams counties Stephens described moving belongings to higher spots ahead of two feet then head back to find higher water and only a few salvaged items remain as residents began returning to cleanup days later
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Fort Wayne
Ind
St. Joseph
Sam Stephens
Stephens
International Harvester
Otis R Bowen
Carter
Allen
Adams
Bowen
Ste
Phens
Northside
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Iph Ordan
Ft. Wayne
Wickens
Selby
Supon
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