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Metal mass costs thousands
Houston art five stories high
United Press International
HOUSTON — It rises 55 feet
above the plaza in front of the
tallest building in the Southwest
and nobody knows what it is,
other than an angular red,
black, blue and yellow stack of
metal.
Nobody knows, that is, except
Spanish sculptor Joan (Juan)
Miro and the purchasers who
paid $800,000 to give Housto
nians something to talk about
besides the heat, the rain and the
traffic.
“I think we should get the
Humanitarian Award of the
Year for cleaning up all the
junkyards in town,” said pedes
trian Don Faith, an accountant
with United Gas Pipeline Co.
The sculpture entitled “Per
sonage and Birds” was commis
sioned by United Energy Re
sources Inc., Texas Commerce
Bancshares Inc., and Gerald
Hines Interests Inc. — develop
ers and operators of the 75-
story, gray granite spire Texas
Commerce Tower.
Marvin Brown, spokesman
for United Energy Resources,
said: “It’s something everyone
notices and everyone has a com
ment about. It certainly evokes
emotional responses.”
One attorney, as he hastily
walked into the of fice building,
said: “I can’t believe anyone
would waste money on some
thing like that. It looks like
something a kid would play on.”
Not everyone had bad things
to say about the free-standing
sculpture.
Melanie Trudeau of United
Energy said: “I just love it. I find
it childlike, whimsical and defi
nitely not depressing. It really
doesn’t match the building or
surroundings, but it plays
against the sober look of down
town. It’s very revolutionary.”
The sculpture, dedicated
Tuesday, stands in front of the
building amid large newly
planted oak trees in a spacious
plaza. It is the largest, most col
orful sculpture downtown.
Lainie Fink, spokeswoman
for the Music of Fine Arts, called
the sculpture exciting.
“It may spur other companies
to commission other art.” she
said. “People notice art and
learn about it.”
Lawyer sues family, others
charging looting of estate
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DALLAS — A Dallas attorney attorney being tried for extor-
has filed a $5 million lawsuit tion, charging them with looting
against his mother, two sisters his father’s estate.
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Marvin G. Kramer said the
suit was filed Tuesday in U.S.
District Court in Dallas, but he
said the defendants “played
games” when he tried to serve
them with civil citations through
the mail. So he came to Jackson
ville to personally see they got
the documents.
Named as defendants were
Kramer’s mother, Miriam; his
sisters, Brenda Leritman and
Arlene Kramer; Leritman’s hus
band, Alvin; attorneys Harold
Haimowitz, Lonnie VVurn and
Frederick Lenczyk; and accoun
tant Ben Hoffenberg.
The suit charges the defen
dants with stealing as much as
$1.5 million from the estate of
Kramer’s father, president of
the Food Fair Supermarket
chain until his death in July
1975.
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HOUSTON — A report de
scribing major engineering de
fects at the South T exas Nuclear
Project was flawed by conclu
sions vvithout supporting facts, a
Houston Lighting Sc Power Co.
official said Tuesday.
Jerome Goldberg, HL&P’s
vice president for nuclear en
gineering, said he found fault
with the Quadrex Report, but
admitted he hired Quadrex Co.
to do another review of en
gineering for the proposed
Allens Creek nuclear plant.
“Practice makes perfect,”
Goldberg said at a Nuclear Reg
ulatory Commission licensing
hearing.
Goldberg explained that the
review of the South Texas Pro
ject gave Quadrex experience
that no one else had for this kind
of study. And, although nothing
was fundamentally wrong with
Quadrex as a consultant, the
company was given insufficient
time to carry out the study.
Therefore, conclusihns were
made in the report without
proper background, he said.
In the report, Quadrex had
blasted Brown Sc Root Go., the
former engineer and contractor
on the project. But the engineer
at Allens Creek, Ebasco Services
Inc., “meets or exceeds industry
standards,” Quadrex had re
ported.
The NRC hearing was held to
determine what steps HL&P
had taken to assure that prob
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