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MONDAY, APRIL 6, 1981
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Bedford builds a pyramid
United Press International
BEDFORD, Ind. — With a federal grant
and geographic good luck. Merle Eding-
ton’s dream is beginning to take shape — a
pyramid that will tower 10 stories high
above the farm land and forests of southern
Indiana.
And if that’s not enough of an attraction
to draw Edington’s hoped-for two million
tourists a year — he’s also going to throw in
an 800-foot-long replica of the Great Wall of
China.
Edington, president of the Bedford
Chamber of Commerce, he hit upon the
pyramid scheme as a way to get tourists to
the world’s largest building stone quarries.
Edington’s version of Cheops on the
Nile isn’t going to cost Bedford a pharaoh’s
ransom.
“The land has been donated, the stone
has been donated, most of the labor is being
donated,” Edington said.
The volcanoes of another age have pro
vided for free the material that will com
pose the triangular structure — Indiana
limestone that formed the blocks used by
architects to build, among other things, the
Empire State Building.
Edington said he thought quarry oper
ators might like to donate cut limestone
that was just lying around, some of it piled
50 and 75 feet high, to build a tribute to an
industry that was muscled out of construc
tion by pre-stressed concrete and glass cur
tain walls.
Instead of suggesting he had rocks in his
head, the quarries complied.
Even Washington is helping out.
A slowdown in the Reagan administra
tion’s efforts to abolish the Economic De
velopment Administration provided some
of the cash needed to keep up with con
struction costs elevated by inflation.
Last week the administration processed
64 pending requests for $23 million in
grants and $71 million in loan guarantees.
Among those requests was $200,000 for the
pyramid project, which earlier had been
granted $500,000.
What still is needed is cash for equip
ment, light bulbs, hardware and sewage
disposal facilities.
Workmen already have laid 77,000 cubic
feet of stone for the foundation of the
pyramid.
It was when they were excavating the
pyramid foundations Edington decided to
add the replica of the Great Wall of China.
He said he had to do something to dis
pose of all his waste stone and earth. He
thought of the Great Wall because “it’s the
only thing the astronauts could see from the
moon that was man-made.”
“This is going to be the museum of what
mankind has built of stone throughout the
ages,” Edington said.
The pyramid is only at ground level, but
people already are flocking to see it built.
Edington has set up an 1890 caboose as a
reception center and gift shop, from which
people can wander out to be sidewalk su
perintendents.
“I don’t know what people expect to see
at this stage,” he said, “because there’s no
thing like this that’s been done in the his
tory of the world. ”
Fort Worth honky-tonk
showcases real building
United Press Internationa!
FORT WORTH — Not only is
Billy Bob’s Texas bigger than the
famous Gilley’s, but the bulls at
the spacious new honky-tonk in
Fort Worth’s stockyards are live.
With room for 6,000 people,
Billy Bob’s is on its way to the
Guinness’ Book of World Records
as Earth’s largest nightclub, sur
passing Gilley’s in Pasadena.
“I’m not getting into this as a
contest, only to say our place is
bigger or better than some other
place,” said Billy Bob Taylor, a
former Texas A&M football player
and rancher who is the moving
force behind the nightclub, which
opened April 1.
“Our message is that if you
want to see the real live West,
come to the Fort Worth stock-
yards.”
Billy Bob’s has more than
100,000 square feet, room to seat
3,500 (compared to 3,000 at Gil
ley’s) with a maximum capacity of
6,000 (5,500 for Gilley’s).
Size isn’t its only attribute. The
club has 42 bar stations, two
13,000 square-foot dance floors
and the entertainment includes
some of country music’s top per
formers like Larry Gatlin who per
formed at the opening.
And then there is the bullriding
arena. No mechanical bulls at Bil
ly Bob’s. This place has an arena in
which 500 people can watch pro
fessional rodeo performers ride
heaving, nasty-tempered bulls.
Although barred from the bullrid
ing, the general public is invited
to give calf roping a try.
Barnett, 34, and his co-owners
have invested about $5 million in
revamping an old department
store into their showcase night
club. It is located in what was
known at the turn of the century
as “Hell’s Half-Acre” where guns
lingers, gamblers and hookers
frolicked.
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Modern courting
is nonverbal affair
United Press International
SEATTLE — A man may be carrying a pocket computer, but he’s
ot much beyond the cave man when it comes to courting women,
ays anthropologist David Givens.
Givens, a University of Washington professor, specializes in study
ing the ways men and women are brought together.
His main laboratory is the Hub, the student gathering center on the
university campus. He spends hours quietly observing young men and
women and what they do to attract persons of the opposite sex.
Givens finds early communication between strangers is nonverbal
body language — non-conscious, subtle movements intended to show
man at his masculine best and the woman at her most feminine
state of attractiveness.
This, the professor says, involves preening — the drawing in of the
stomach and posture correction as each gradually becomes more aware
of the other.
A man and a woman who reach the conclusion they are attracted to
each other are in a state of “isopraxism,” Givens says. They are
behaving in similiar patterns.
He says this behavior pattern is found also among birds and fish and
is “real, real important in courtship.’
In our supposedly more open society why do people fuss with such
preliminaries? When boy wants to meet girl, or vice versa, why not
just go up and say so?
Givens says they can’t because there’s some block in the human
mind that prevents this approach.
Tnthe emotional centers of the brain, we’re jerked around by these
patterns formed millions and millions of years ago. What kills me about
humans is that we re supposed to be so intellectual and evolved. Yet,
in courtship, we’re still with the apes and monkeys and whatever.”
Besides, Givens says a spoken message is “too strong.” The preen
ing, hair tossing, tummy tucking or chest expanding is the unlearned,
non-conscious, instinctive stuff of which budding romance is made.
The professor says the milestone in early courting lies in finding
ways to “accidentally” touch.
They’ll do the sneakiest thing to get a touch, ” he says, then they’ll
snitch a hug and modify it with humor.
Givens says humor is vital.
"If the person gets serious real fast, it scares the other person away.
At any time, the other person could drop it — the whole thing is like a
dance.”
As for men’s booming speech and swaggering walk, Givens says that
isn’t so much to attract females as it is a “subtle challenge” posture to
threaten other men away much in the way a ram threatens male rivals
with its horns.
He says the roots of the flirting process are found in the parent-child
bonding process where faces are thrust close together to magnify eye
and body contact.
The childish actions later are used in the flirting process. Givens
says women generally are much better at this process than men.
Flirting isn’t limited to the young or the unmarried, he says, and it
doesn’t stop with old age.
“If they can still move, you’ll find the same courtship units.”
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