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Show 4 ROLLO-glyphics h have suggested freezing the ground under the tower; but engineers say this would only shift the weight to a lower level cf soli, which is even soupier than the ground the tower is resting on now. Whatever you do, it needs to be done quickly. Having stubbornly stub-bornly resisted the pull of gravity for 799 years, the Leaning Lean-ing Tower of Pisa will crash to destruction if the increase In tilt continues much longer. It wasn't kn ago when a substantial proportion of public pub-lic opinion ran against the annual an-nual practice of shifting to "daylight saving" time in the Spring, and then back to standard stan-dard time In the Fall. Today, public opinion and the President Presi-dent appears to be shifting the other way. One Representative in Washington reports that his mall Is running in favor of year-round d a y 1 ight saving time by a margin of 20-1. Then, too, the most common reason given for support of "fast time" was once "for Increased In-creased leisure time." Today, the most frequently mentioned reasons for favoring year-round daylight saving time are energy ener-gy conservation and greater public safety. Time and c i r c u mstances change many things, Including public opinion. k If there is ever "pie In the sky" for all, a federal official i will probably be there with measuring cup and slide rule to see that it conforms to gov- ernment regulations. Those who doubt the grow-'; grow-'; Ins omnipotence of government obviously haven't heard of the ', latest activities of the Food and Drug Administration. After seven years of study, the gov- ernment has compiled a detail's detail-'s ed definition of frozen cherry 2 pie and how lt must be made. ?t Federal rules now stipulate how many and what kind of '- cherries must be used, the sizs ; of the pan and the sieves used and even instruct the cook on how to rins? the cherries In water. Would It be impertinent to suggest that our governmental agencies and myriads of Washington Wash-ington bureaucrats busy themselves them-selves with matters of national Import and leave the pie making mak-ing to us? A little personal choice Is still nice to have. i For those of you who are looking to make an extra buck the offer comes where $100,000 i extra cash Is available for the right information. I All that Is required is to 1 come up with a solution to keep the Leaning Tower of Pisa from leaning more than lt does now. To get you started off on the right foot or lean here are some of the background facts: For reasons not entirely I clear, the 13 foot thick foun-I foun-I dations of the Tower of Pisa t were laid on wet, marshy soil. ,' As a result, the tower began to lean almost as soon as con struction began in the year 1174. Year after year it has continued con-tinued to lean more and more, until now the top ia a danger-i danger-i ous 15 feet from perpendicular. Things that have been tried: In the 1800's water was pump- ed from the wet soil under the tower; the tilt Increased. In 1934 tons of concrete were pumped pum-ped into 'the ground under the foundations; again the Leaning Tower leaned some more. Some |