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THE BAYTOWN-SUN** * Thursday, May 10.197-9 - :
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What’s up in books?
With the approach of the'.swimsuit' season. "The
Complete Scarsdale Medipai Diet ' has become one of
the most popular books at the nation's libraries. These
are the most requested fiction and non-fiction titles at
libraries m 150 U S cities, according to the American
Library Association
Egyptians Hike Visitor Fees To Fix Crumbling Pyramid
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) — Cars churn their pxhaust-
, ~8jy' »«/-— • —u,v.» Beginning in Odtober, an sites on the sprawlingr dollars annually for
One of the- estimated 2.3 belching, stone-destroying entrance fee of $2 89 will be P*ateau. Hawass said.
Hassan.
Fiction'
1. OVERLOAD * 1 *
- by Arthur Hailey (Doubleday. $10 §5)
2. WAR 4 REMEMBRANCE ---—-
--- -by Herman WoukiLrttle. Srowrr-S15h -—---
3. CHESAPEAKE
^^^e^/CMichener (Random House. $12.35)
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m |Detacofie, J9:95r '
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the^ataVese^ircle0
by Robert Ludlum (Richard Mard*-$12 50)
. THE FAR PAVILIONS
by John Cheeyer (Knopf $15)
THE SIXTH COMMANDMENT
>: « by ten Detgh40n (Kftopf. $9 95)
A -"-. . (,
Pharaoh?
The largest, _the Great
Pyramid of Cheops,- was
constructed around 2680
Nonfiction
;1;MOMMfE DEAREST - —---
by Christina CrawfordriMorrow, $9J5y
2. LAUREN BACALL BY MYSELF
i(Knoaf,US44-
4VAMERICAN CAESAR
by-William Manchester (Little:18rowr>$1i) IT~~
5. JACKIE OH! »
by Kitty KelleylLyle'Stuart. $12
*. NURSE-
by Peggy Anderson (St Martin's, $10:95)
UN SEARCH OF HISTORY
by Theodore H. White (Harper & Row, $12,951. _____-
«r*C»E$£ ' - -
by Elizabeth Ashley & Ross Firestone (Evans, $10)
9. THE COMPLETE SCARSDALE MEDICAL DIET
by Herman Tarnower M.D. & Samrii Sinclair Baker
(Rawsen. Wade, $7.95) .......u— ---------
10. JfOW TQ PROSPER DURING THE COMING BAD YEARS
by Howard J. Ruff (Times Books. $8.95))
,: - (NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN l --
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Moscow’s Buddings Being
‘Rolled’ In Reorganization
“When.one stops to think
..... .......... maintaining the site, so of the good that that money
million stones in the famed, motors up to the base of the .T " . “!“v Egypt’s struggling offici ‘ * ' "
Pyramid of Cheops crashed monuments. - charged to foreign tourists g^noi^y jS’ on]y able t0 mak<
to the ground recently, so “This chaos is harming wishing to see any" of the spare a few thousand self.
officials are quadrupling everything and we’re going iSm ““-
the 72-cerit admission for to stop it, ” said Hassan.
foreigners to raise funds for The 482-fodt pyramid
sprucing up the ancient constructed by Pharaoh
tomb and its companion, Cheops i& one of the Seven
the Sphinx. Wonders of the Ancient
“These monuments need World and - the, largest _
care and restoration. The «•,pyramid ever built. It is not
sacredness of the area is in .danger of falling down. •
being violated almost every But tRe toppied stone and
minute.” said Nassef wear and tear on. the
Hassan^ ehief-inspector of monuments clearly has
antiquities at Giza, about preservationists worried,
eight ntiles southwest of- The Sphinx, a few hun-
here on the western bank of dred yards from the
‘the Nile"" * . pyramids, is suffering from
Foreign tourists will'be / wuiderosion. ■ ' -
asked to shoulder most of “We plan to ge over the
mission price for Egyptians there are any moire loose
will be kept at about 14 stone?and at the same time
cents. ■ we will use locally quarried
The three pyramids of limestone to shore up .the
A Special Day for a Special Lady
Bring all the family to Monument
Inn to enjoy Mothers’ Day...
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chieft
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Giza, considered thejinest -' north side of the-Sphinx,
-.■i-yrAu i-«f-theiF-k»d,-were con- - -which .has bee.n .peeling
--structed as.jpyat burial awayjfor centuries,” said
sites during, the Fourth Z ah i Hawass, another
Dynasty ofthe 'anciefit . . antiquities InasectoF.
-Asmany_as3,500 tourists_
a day visit the Giza plateau,
but the only admission fee
...______.. .. _........ ... is a 72fcent charge for en-
B:(L The Sphinx, a colossal tering' the pyramid of
figure of a lion with a man’s Cheops. , -
bead sculpted from natural
5.000 People
tourists scramble up'the- |jrr > P rrc
sides of the pyramids daily ■ Work TOr t/.d.
and few guards are _
available to stop them. Steel III TeXOS
and sandwich wrappers. Steel, which held its second
annual convention here
Monday, ^employs about
5.000 people state-wide.
According to David M.
Roderick, chairman of the
board of the Hjulti-billion
dottcrr corporation, the
MOSCOW (AP) , .
Moscow’s buildings are on behind,
the move, Using a 15th In an interview, one of
Century Italian method, the Moscow’s leading ar-
largest facility in Texas
, .The basement was. left near Izmailova Park, is owned by U. S. Steel is in
Russians are reorganizing chitects,-'Nikolai Sobolev,
center by rolling said the moving technique
also to be moved. Baytown
“Since the war, we’ve That facility, Roderick
done without this method,” said, is the “...only plant in
Sobolev said. “Now we see this country capable of
the city center by rolling said the moving technique we can’t get by without it in producing 48-inch pipe.”
their historic'buildings to was developed 500 years the reconstruction of the Roderick* announced to
and fro. • ago. by Italian architect city.’.; » reporters the company’s
A new city, department, Aristotele Fioravante, who All this moving about of plan to ‘begin phasing out
formed especially to handle us*ed wooden rails to move ac buifdings is caused by non-profiteble plants'which
the moves, has just com- building 20 meters along a Moscow V-unusuaT master manufacture less saleable
pleted its first project, the downtown street. plan of reconstruction that items.
34-meter move of the Trud Before World War II, he, controls all building of Baytown, Roderick said,
newspaper building along said, in a period of Moscow streets and structures and is not being considered as a
the city’s' main avenue, redevelopment during designates “cultural possible shut-down site.
Gorky Street, in sight of the which streets were wideped reserves’’ aroupd parks, Baytown, about, 30 miles
' KTemiin; ............-t.:. .. and the -ffityt-mode? tflzefc streets and buildings in the . .east of here, operates an
Traveling a few meters at from.its'ofd wooffhuf Tooi: ^ cannot‘be ~.e Le,c t.x i c j u r n ace f o r
a time. at a speed of about moving historic buildings modified. steelmaking, steel plates
one meter an hour, the was the rule, with about 50 But these “cultural and large diameter'pipe
10,000-ton building drew of them creaking up and reserves” are beginning to production,
large crowds as it shifted down the streets. , dog downtown Moscow’s "
almost imperceptibly down
The handsome dark red maze of one-way streets
the street ' ~ ' Moscow city council with previously unheard of
The movement, along building rolled backwards, traffic, jams, as Soviet
eight pairs of specially laid a picturesque eye dinic factories turn out more and
iron rails, was so hard to turned 92 degrees'on its more cars,
notice that construction axis and a row of apart- ... By the end of the next
men demonstrated it to ment buildings at the foolof decade,-MoscowJs trafficis
reporters hy plaelng a. Gorky Street-moyed jnto expected to more_-than-
matchbox on a rail tosee it "their own back yards. -double, to one million
slowly crulhed by one of the *The Tass news agency vehicles,
leoreaof ireBrollers.—— --Claimed: 4hat-ftett- oc-.. Wittuan expanding city
The Trud building bufit cupants-remained in them pushing against historically
S wS wLSrc^S I™™** MoS ste^- ™yv?t£eb°uMn^s
with steel bars for the the buddings
/“Moscojr. fouadatioB
some broken glass.
Fffll>1.000 la *25.000
CBEPfT mimPOHTAlU
COST OF WFflMMDON IS
MiTE: ^
MONEY MAKERS
4121 N. FREEWAY „
P.0. NX ItSOO-Dmnr 135
Hmtw. T». 77022
another 40 major moves on preserved by Mosfun-
Izvestia. "v-. ■■ buildings that stand in the
'tie huge Prague
ssfissftjs:'
red backwards, though each year.
moyi
-,-pl
small block of its own» can . . . %
TwoEducation
One of Moscow s first fire
towers, a quaint little turret - -----------v
-....... - Committees
OIL PAINTINGS—PRINTS
JEWELRY-POTTERY _
ARTLESSONi-SUPPUES
FRAMES^OJSTOM FRAMING9' ’ ’
Bill Peace, Lee College
director of Learning
^Resources, has received
two appointments.
. Qofe appointment was to . . ..
serve on Committee V-
(Relations with Community _------ -
and Junior Colleges) of the
Texas- Gsnfereftce. of Jbo . • “F-*
American Association of
■University Pmfess<gs,JoL^^ ^»^ r
1979-80 year: The national
conference of the AAUP
will be held June 8 and 9 in
Houston:
He has also been ap-
pointed lo serve on-the-
- Lftnuar Bchool Advi$fiCy
COBnol of Sam Houston
State University. This
group met Monday to assist
* the library school in their .-*»
planning for future courses
to the offferedlibraiV school-
students working on the
-master’s degree
The library school is
working for full ac-
creditation from the
American Library
Association and through the
council were seeking imput
from librarians
representing various types
of libraries in the state.
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 184, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 10, 1979, newspaper, May 10, 1979; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1074900/m1/6/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.