Montreal stadium design blamed for cost surge in 1976 project
A consultants report tabled in the national assembly says the novel Taillibert design and repeated technical changes drove the 564 million Montreal stadium project overrun from an expected 223 million. It warns prefabricated concrete columns were the costliest part amid labor issues.
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Wakeman Receives Brazil Gold Record For Voyage Album
British musician Rick Wakeman earns a gold record in Brazil for Voyage to Center of the Earth sales. EMI Brazil chief Ross Dihlmann presented the award after more than 200,000 copies sold. Wakeman wraps Brazilian tour at Rio de Janeiro's Maracanazinho Gymnasium with three sold out shows priced from 8 to 40 dollars.
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Obscenity arrests tied to children’s book sales in Portsmouth
Portsmouth police report two people were arrested for selling a children’s book showing nude children and adults. Names not released, summons issued for December 22 in Portsmouth District Court. books possibly confiscated unclear. In Walpole, Parsons Whittemore Co moves to rezone 600 acres on the Connecticut River for a $200 million pulp mill, stating construction may take over two years.
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Pearl Bailey Honored by U N General Assembly
Pearl Bailey received high praise in the United Nations General Assembly after concluding a four week stint as U N diplomat. Saudi envoy Jamil Baroody read a mock resolution thanking the U N for delegating Bailey who highlighted the session. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis begins earning 200 dollars weekly as Viking Press consultant for bringing in a book. President Gainzburg cites A Special Destiny as tied to a planned exhibit on women's changing roles in the 18th century.
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Energy Bill On Ford's Desk Sees Senate Approval
Ford faces decision on a bill to reduce gasoline and heating oil prices temporarily while phasing out federal price controls. The measure would raise fuel efficiency, lift controls over 40 months, and cut pump prices by about 2.5 to 3.5 cents per gallon if signed, amid a party-line vote and ongoing energy policy clash.
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World Guidelines clash over four conference commissions
Delegates at the International Conference on Economic Cooperation in Paris debated rival plans from Algeria and the European Economic Community on how to run substantive work. The meeting, after speeches, aimed to form four negotiating commissions to shape a new world economic order, with tensions between industrialized nations and developing states and discomfort over oil nations holding cochair positions.
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