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Models Open Daily Monday thru Saturday 10 a.m. till 6 p.m Sunday 1 p.m. till 6 p.m. Expansion at the Louvre United Press International PARIS — Custodians of the Louvre, already the world’s biggest museum, have dug up a new trove of medieval treasures. Literally. Archeologists are digging up the grounds of the former palace turned museum and are . unearthing hun dreds of artifacts, from fortress walls to shoe soles. tually give a real-life history of the palace. The history of the Louvre, in part, is the history of France, since both the “modern” Louvre and its heavy stone predecessor were seats of French rulers. pourri of everyday medieval arti facts. At one dig site a 12th century for tress and dungec.. built by King Philippe Auguste have been uncov ered. Monarchs and emperors razed and rebuilt at their pleasure. The present-day museum took more than 300 years to complete, starting with the ambitious designs of Pierre Lescot. They found shoe soles, game dice and even a piece of oriental Ming china — which pyramid architect I.M. Pei has deemed of inferior ex port quality. By the end of 1985, visitors will be invited into the hole to scrutinize from eight yards under ground level, in the former castle moat, the bases of two ancient towers and a roomy dungeon. The final touch, sprawling gar dens, around the Louvre today, are the result of a bomb hurled at the palace on Christmas Eve, 1800. The blast destroyed 46 houses and killed 10 people but just missed its target — master of the palace, Na poleon I. Archeologists have found the once densely populated area had all the services of any medieval neigh borhood, including a street reserved for prostitutes. The bones of sheep sold at an open market give more clues to downtown Paris, 14th cen tury style. This second dig site will never be open to the public, since it is to be bulldozed over for completion of the pyramid within four years. ; Archeologists say there were two other fortress towers, but their re mains will stay buried below the rambling structure of today’s Louvre museum. Napoleon promptly demolished the surrounding neighborhood and expanded the palace grounds to give himself a wider berth from the rowdy populace. But the unearthed artifacts will become part of an exhibit on the Louvre’s history inside the museum, which attracts 3 million tourists a year. That will only add to the daysit already takes to thoroughly tourtht Louvre. “The history of the Louvre Palace is not as well known as it should be,” Culture Minister Jack Lang said while touring the sites that will even- As 100 workers have excavated to build a futuristic glass pyramid that will form a new entrance to the Louvre, they have uncovered a pot- “But we want to make sure that the world’s largest museum is also the world’s most beautiful and inter esting museum,” Lang said. Dock strike not honored by British Wallpaper goes to designer labels United Press International United Press International NEW YORK — W'hen Karl Peter- LONDON — Some 600 long shoremen defied union calls to strike Monday and went to work while dockers at three other British ports voted to continue working in a grow ing rebellion against the union’s na tional call to strike. Dock workers at Immingham and Grimbsy on England’s northeast coast kept the two ports — two of Britain’s largest — operating nor mally. The sites were bare of picket- ers. son was a student at Harvard Busi ness School, he was unnerved to hear a professor announce three rules of investment: never give money to anyone who has long hair, a beard, or plans to go into business with his wife. “At least I didn’t have a beard,” Peterson said. No longer long haired, he is still a believer in busi ness deals with spouses. With his wife Lyn, he now owns and operates Motif Designs, a growing interior design firm. “We were doing very well locally, but having trouble getting expostm beyond,” she said. “I kept saying:K only we had a name.” While dining at a restaurant witli friends, Lyn noticed a Marimekko wall-hanging and mentioned that she had one in her home. Everyont at the table, it turned out, hadaMa rimekko, and the Petersons decided to approach the company about i wallpaper line. Only one out of 300 long shoremen at Belfast and Larne, the two main ports in Northern Ireland, voted to join. Dock workers in Ips wich, on England’s east coast, also voted to continue working. A union spokesman in Belfast said the dockers decided unanimously to keep working because they thought the strike call was “political.” All 12 Scottish ports have obeyed the call, as have the English ports of Liverpool, London, Tilbury and Hull. Motif Designs began in 1975 as a wallpaper store, and expanded into designing. Recruiting big name de signers to lend their name to new wallpaper lines, the Petersons helped inject some glamor into what had been a rather fusty end of the interior design business. Marimekko chairman Ristomatli Ratia said “no” three times befort the Petersons persuaded him to stop by their store. Lyn then summonetl her mother’s wealthiest friends, put on her best designer clothes anti staged a welcome for Ratia. The Transport and General Workers Union, the TGWU, /ailed its 35,000 members out on strike Fri day to protest the British Steel Corp.’s use of non-union labor to unload coal for the Ravenscraig steel plant in Scotland. A dockworkers’ strike would help British miners, who walked off the job March 12 to protest government plans to close 20 unprofitable mines and eliminate some 20,000jobs. Anti-strike dockworkers say a longshoremans’ walkout would be a “political” action, aimed at bringing down the government of Prime Min ister Margaret Thatcher. Union leaders say the strike is over the use of “scab” or non-union labor. “We had that entrepreneurial drive,” said Lyn. But they were a couple in search of a career until the day Lyn went shopping for wal lpaper for their new home. “I found it to be a horrifying proc ess,” she said. “They were rude, didn’t give me the time of day, and overcharged me.” With an MBA in the family, the Petersons knew all about marketing niches and unfulfilled needs. They decided to open a wallpaper store. With a $10,000 investment in 1975, the Petersons opened a busi ness in Larchmont, N.Y. Du ali; All Ui the MIA? Airlines Itankruj eral ban carrier’s the air b Midw pre hearing udge threater teiversh tation p Weav Sept. 14 kith Ai federal t Midway am pan two wee tract by Ratia did not succumb before ptrustee checking with other wallpaper com panics. He then decided the Peter- executiv sons would make the best associates. Marimekko “was the making of our fortune,” Lyn said. With “name’ wallpaper, Motif Designs jumped from $250,000 to $1.75 million lit sales within a year. Growth entailed some trauma The Petersons stored their inventon in the basement, and a typical subur ban flooding problem turned intoa near-disaster for the business. The garage storage area began spilling out into the street. “The same dissatisfaction I felt with the wallpaper store I began to feel for the designs,” Lyn said. Lyn, who had a background in de sign, began drawing up her own pat terns at the dining room table back home. “The police would ticket our wal lpaper for illegal parking," Karl said Motif Designs has since developed lines of children’s wallpaper, added Ralph Lauren to their stable of de- igners, and begun designing and ellir B selling fabrics and home furnish- ings. They have also graduated to more formal storage area. “We’re just out growing our fourth warehouse,' Karl said. LOU POT’S HAS USED BOOKS! SHOP EARLY & SAVE WITH USED BOOKS FROM LOUPOT’S B Why pay more? mOUPOT'SK NORTHGATE BOOKSTORE Plenty of parking behind the store (At the corner across from the Post Office) SI PT P( 1C M