an plans to build
ext wonder of world
United Press International
QUEBEC — Jean Saint-Germain plans to dwarf the
ielping dti feat Pyramid of Egypt with one of his own that will be
o has takijjbiggest in the world, with room for 2,000 coffins, one
rvation pra jllion urns — and a restaurant on the top.
>n the far Now all he needs to build his own wonder of the world
ily since islthe sleepy village of St. Simon, 33 miles outside
iy I’ve iitigntreal, is permission from the Quebec Province zon-
oard.
nt-Germain says his idea for the 49-story pyramid
hich in effect, would be a mausoleum — “has
;rs were swing to do with mysticism.”
is in theyM just think it’s a practical idea,” said the man who
d until illhe is a “thinker” when asked his occupation. “It
’ be convenient and a tourist attraction as well.”
nt-Germain said he was upset that his pyramid
leaked out because he wanted to keep them secret
he found out whether the zoning board would
him to build the 534-foot-high structure,
e area where I want to build is zoned agricultural
iso usedtluB’ve applied for permission to build,” the 43-year-
he soil froil
old father of 12 said. “I should have an answer by Nov.
14.”
“If they say no, I’ll take my idea to Ontario or the
United States,” he said, adding that the pyramid —
which would house a museum of inventions on the
ground floor and a restaurant on top — would cost
between $40 million and $60 million to build.
Saint-Germain, who claims to hold the patent on
many inventions, including the Playtex nursing bottle,
has already built a so-called “Aerodium,” a building
which resembles a silo where customers can become
weightless through what he terms a “vertical air press
ure system.” He said he has already sold the patent of
the Aerodium to a Japanese company for an undisclosed
fee.
The world’s largest pyramid is actually not in Egypt,
but is the Quetzalcoatl, 63 miles southeast of Mexico
City. It is a mere 177 feet tall; its base covers nearly 45
acres, and its volume of 4.3 million cubic yards is almost
1 million cubic yards bigger than Egypt’s Pyramid of
Cheops.
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zcrinthel^ASHINGTON — The Supreme
, he said, )urt ^ a g ree( J t 0 consider
er colleges accepting federal
l-e required by the Rehabilita-
amant tkik-Act of 1973 to pay for an inter-
rily assunr for a deaf graduate student,
care of :.- .flu justices will hear an appeal
arming by the University of Texas
gency areJI 3 ^ng that the school must
ricanasanjp a si 8 n language interpreter
in the eriti-P ailc l* ca PP et l persons may bring
States "lieMinder the 1973 act to enforce
Might.
| suit was brought in March,
K by Walter Camenisch, a stu-
i\7 N at tbe University of Texas at
/ V ■’ re 9 u ' re ll' 6 university to
J pish him with a sign language in-
Mter to assist in his classwork.
He argued he needed the inter-
Er to complete work for his mas
ter’s degree by the end of the 1978
summer term in order to keep his job
as acting dean of students at the East
Campus of the Texas School for the
Deaf.
The Rehabilitation Act provided
that “no otherwise qualified hand
icapped individual” could be denied
the benefits of any program receiv
ing federal financial assistance, he
argued.
At the time, the University of
Texas received some $31.4 million in
federal aid. However, the school de
nied Camenisch’s request on
grounds he did not meet the univer
sity’s criteria for financial assistance
to graduate students. The decision
forced him to pay for his own inter
preter.
Several months after he filed his
suit, a federal district court held
Camenisch had the legal right to
bring suit under the Rehabilitation
Act without first exhausting admin-
sitrative channels.
The court also required him to file
an administrative complaint with a
federal agency before initiating a
suit.
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals affirmed, finding Came
nisch had a right to bring suit under
the Rehabilitation Act. However,
the court refused to require Came
nisch to file an administrative com
plaint first.
Texas appealed to the Supreme
Court, arguing a 1979 Supreme
Court ruling barred the courts from
imposing the financial and adminis
trative burdens of providing inter
preters.
riendliness one reason
.S. draws Europeans
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United Press International
NDON — From this side of the Atlantic, America
looked so inviting.
iropeans in ever increasing numbers are visiting
United States. While bargain air fares and a cheap
6r are primary reasons, returning tourists and travel
nts say there is more to it than saving cash.
.mmcans, they say, have earned high marks for
w mdliness and fairness, for providing good service
■ i Jia minimum of hassles, for welcoming tourists as
, n ^ d -m their doflars.
R v lie spoken to a lot of people and I must confess that
Mbody has said they’ve had a marvelous time,” said
16 ni ^ n( ^ erson Thomas Cook Travel Ltd. “You’d
, a 5 a , ak that someone would have something negative to
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pens Biere is an infatuation among French people for the
ican way oflife,” one Paris travel agent said. “They
jt as a country 10 years ahead of Europe. Also,
lie are not so reserved as in France. They are always
to talk to you, particularly in small towns.”
:hink it’s important to have been there,” said Wal-
Leber, 25, a Bonn school teacher who spent six
in California. “So much of what we have comes
. —here and you can understand it much better if you
mingemp' )w background.”
ty amongtijljg sa jj s [j e Americans because they were
back to f r j enc JIy “ anc l paid absolutely no attention to
ive less seiW|^ rances you could wear what you liked, do what
o satyed 01 raked, ' n contrast to here.”
Yet no matter how much foreign visitors may love
n Oct. 1, ^ w York, California or Florida— the three big destina-
wotkefi fjl_ j ow a i r f ares an( j g ooc j value for their francs,
eluded imf iks or pounds remain the cornerstones of the boom,
king cowMisider this;
jpervisori- \ McDonald’s Big Mac, small french fries and milk
costs about $2.20 in Miami and Los Angeles and
atit $2.60 in New York.
(I Willi IriStockholm, the same meal costs about $4.80 and in
Q FODliS "I London and Hamburg, about $3.75. Other food
^ ,, ices are comparable: In London any cheeseburger
Tax. ™ the ketchup costs $5. In Bonn, a cup of coffee and-
lice of cake fetches $3.40 and a can of beer $1.70.
“(iheapness of food and good service are mentioned
':O0P.II Moften by returning tourists,” Anderson of Thomas
The same applies to hotels.
Ii London, a Holiday Inn room for two people ranges
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In Miami, the average price of the same Holiday Inn
room is $42.
At $56 a night, the Holiday Inn near the Vatican is
cheaper than New York City’s $73, but the Big Apple is
still less than Paris ($97) or Cologne ($80).
U.S. Travel officials trace the tourist boom to the
Bicentennial year of 1976.
“We saw a concerted effort by the United States to
promote itselffor tourists aboard,” said Roger Eennings,
public relations consultant to the U.S. Travel Service in
London. “That coincided with the lower air fares being
offered by operators like Freddie Laker and Jetsave.”
This winter, economy seats on all the major airlines
will sell for about $220 one way from London to New
York, with comparable prices to other destinations.
But perhaps more important are the cheap package
vacations, which combine air fare, hotels and usually
breakfast.
One of the largest package tour operators in Britain is
Jetsave, and its most popular destination is Florida. A
Jetsave spokeswoman said that next year a 14-day Miami
vacation will sell for 280 pounds — $675.
“Florida,” said Fennings of U.S. Travel, “is not like
other patterns: it is an example of sudden, explosive
growth. The thousands of tourists who used to frequent
the Mediterannean picked themselves up en masse and
went to Florida for a good time.”
Miami’s Dade County reported 192,615 European
visitors in the first six months of 1980, 124,615 from
Britain.
“Each month, without fail, the figures rose in occu
pancy and resort tax collections,” said Dade County
Tourism Director Lew Price.
In the Bicentennial year, tourism from Britain leaped
32 percent. “It’s been growing by between 25 and 42
percent annually every year since then, ’’ Fennings said.
“This year we feel confident it will grow another 40
percent. ”
The same holds true for other European countries.
In 1975, the Central German Tourist office reported
297,964 Germans visited the United States, compared
with 485,000 in 1979 and a projected 600,000 this year.
French tourist officials estimate 350,000 Frenchmen
will visit America this year, 13 percent more than in
1979 and 32 percent above the 1978 figures.
“For many people it is a dream trip,” said Jeannette
Howl of the U.S. Travel Service in Frankfurt, West
Germany. “And now they can afford it.”
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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5,1980
FTC streamlines antitrust case
United Press International
WASHINGTON — A Federal
Trade Commission move to stream
line its antitrust conspiracy case
against eight major oil firms for
alleged, pre-1973 crude oil price fix
ing contains almost nothing new, Ex
xon attorneys say, but it could cut
years off the time needed to finish
the case.
An Exxon spokesman said the
company was still studying FTC staff
documents, although Exxon attor
neys detected “nothing more than a
restatement of the broad range of
still unsupported allegations.”
“While the FTC appears to have
dropped or modified some prior con
tentions, the thrust of the case re
mains generally the same,” the
spokesman said.
The FTC staff s new 394-page case
document, although it deletes some
issues, still accuses Exxon and seven
other firms of “a powerful inference
of conspiracy” before 1973.
A commission attorney said the
document was significant because it
simplified the case and removed an
industry complaint about vague
charges.
“You can’t read that document and
not know what you are charged with
— violating sections 1 and 2 of the
Sherman Antitrust Act,” he said.
It charges the firms with “a tacit
conspiracy with regard to raising
crude oil prices to artificially high
levels.” It also says they cooperated
to “maintain a non-competitive mar
ket” in downstream operations —
marketing, refining and pipelines —
to keep independents from under
cutting crude prices.
The attorney said only an effort to
sustain crude prices could explain
decisions by the majors to continue
with marginal or unprofitable down
stream businesses. He said the con
trol of crude oil prices dictated other
moves because it is easier to shield
those upstream profits from taxes.
Restatement of the staff antitrust
complaint could cut as much as a
decade from the time it would take to
obtain a court verdict in the massive
pre-1973 crude oil price conspiracy
case. It saves time mainly by drastic
ally chopping the number of eviden
tiary company source documents to
half a million.
The FTC attorney said the staffs
decision to steadily narrow the issues
draws on a procedure adopted by the
judge in the celebrated American
Telephone & Telegraph Co. anti
trust case. As a result, he said, “it’s
not out of the question that the trial
could begin in two years and the trial
itself might not take that long.
“The last remedy available would
be divestiture,” he said, but “we
have not focused on any particular
remedy at this time.”
Two issues dropped from the case
document dealt with anti
competitive effect of interlocking
corporate directorates and alleged
efforts to weaken independent
rivals.
Respondents include Exxon, Tex
aco, Gulf, Mobil, Standard of Cali
fornia, Standard of Ohio, Atlantic
Richfield and Shell.
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