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Minneapolis LocalFamily ComicsTV-Radio 1B Tuesday February 26 1974 What's going on? N. I 'i It! fC A 1 in ,1 fell I ihJTi, fax t.vf A0m A hf mi m- 11 Staff Photos by Kent Kobersteen Apollo 16 astronaut Thomas Mattingly talked about America's and the Soviet Union's space programs Monday with Astronaut says Russia behind U.S. in Pilots test low-noise, steep route to airport By Dan Wascoe Jr. Staff Writer From the cockpit of a Northwest Airlines jet, the IDS Tower is just a 57-story milepost along a new, 1 -n i landing approach tried out Monday: Fly directly over IDS, head south along Interstate Hwy. 35V, turn left about 50th St.

above the wooden walls built as a shield against highway noise and lower the landing gear for a touchdown on runway 11R at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. That approach, called "Downtown Visual," is one of nine new approaches flown yesterday in a Boeing 727 by Northwest pilots and supervisors, federal aviation officials and staff members of the Metropolitan Airports Commission (MAC). Several pilots took turns at the controls, and all agreed later that the idea of using steeper, curvier approaches to International's three main runways can be practical and safe. The MAC hopes to have the new system in use by May.

If that happens, the new approaches will remove about 30 percent of all flights from the six straight-in approaches used now, used Claude Schmidt, MAC's director of noise abatement. That means jet noise will be spread over a broader area than it is now, but By Carl Griffin Jr. Staff Writer Maplewood shopping center nearly done Completion of a two-level, enclosed shopping center in Maplewood is scheduled for July 31. The $20-million shopping center, occupying more than 800,000 square feet, is being built at Interstate Hwy. 694 and White Bear A v.

It is one of three such shopping centers planned for the Twin Cities by Homart Development Co. Homart is a subsidiary of Sears, Roebuck and Co. Besides the Sears store, Powers Department Store will be a major tenant of the center. Powers will have a store. Sears will have 145,000 square feet.

About 120 other retailers are expected to occupy the mall. Architects are North Architeconics Chicago. Homart starts center in Eden Prairie Homart also has begun construction on a $20-million enclosed shopping center in Eden Prairie. The mall will be located in The Preserve, a planned community being built near Interstate Hwy. 494 and Hwy.

169. There will be more than one million square feet in the center, scheduled for completion in the fall of 1975. A smaller, non-enclosed center, located on the edge of the site, is scheduled to open this fall. The firm also is planning to build a shopping center in Burnsville beginning this soring. The center will be located at Interstate Hwy.

35W and Dakota County Rd. 42. The developers expect the center to be completed in the fall of 1976. Besides those in the Twin Cities, Homart has 15 other regional centers in operation in the United States and Mexico. City's 3rd townhouse project planned Construction is scheduled to begin in May for a third townhouse development in Minneapolis, at SE.

8th St. and E. Hennepin Av. Developers Gary Benson and Robert Mecay of Twin Town Realty plan to erect up to 68 townhouses of two to three bedrooms for sale at $27,000 to $34,000 each. Private patios and tot-lots are planned, and old trees on the land will be preserved, Mecay said.

The four acres became available through demolition in the Holmes urban renewal project, where neighbors supported plans for townhouses rather than commercial buildings or the apartments for which the land was zoned. Sections of SE. 7th and 8th Sts. and 3rd Av. SE.

will be closed, adding to the available land while speeding up E. Hennpin Av. traffic. Skyrocketing construction costs have helped raise town-houses and other medium-density configurations patio homes, manor homes, cluster homes and four-plex innovations to a consistent 20 percent of the new-home What's going on? continued on page 2B cluded this three-man ship, which has been used since 1967, "is little more than an unmanned satellite in which cosmonauts have minimal command, control and trouble-shooting capability." "Aviation Week is very accurate," said Mattingly, law is proving elusive By Lewis Cope Staff Writer The Russians are at least eight years behind the United States in the so-phistication of their manned spacecraft, an American astronaut said Monday in Golden Valley. Thomas K.

Mattingly, who flew on the Apollo 16 flight to the moon, noted that the United States and Russia have been exchanging extensive technical information in preparation for a manned linkup of American Apollo and Soviet Soyuz crafts in earth orbit next year. "I think there's no question that the Russian spacecraft, as we have had it described to us, falls somewhere between Mercury and Gemini in so phistication," he said at a news conference. "And that's a long step from Apollo and Skylab." The American one-man Mercury flights, in 1961 and 1962, and two-man Gemini flights, in 1965 and 1966, were all in earth orbit. Flights in the much Compromise By Steven Dornfeld Staff Writer After five sessions over three weeks, members of a Minnesota Senate-House conference committee have made almost no progress toward a compromise on no-fault auto insurance. Although representatives Robert Smith Robbinsdale students.

space who is a Navy commander. He answered with a crisp, "Yes, sir," when asked if he had talked with the American astronauts who visited Russia in preparation for the July 1975 Soyuz-Apollo linkup. Space ContOnued on page 2B ference committee "could easily have met both days" because two of the House negotiators Thomas and Bruce Vento are from Ramsey County, and the third, Bernard Brinkman, lives only 100 miles away in Richmond, Minn. All three are members of the House Financial Institutions and Insurance Committee, which waited No-fault Continued on page 2B nri mm IK IN SOUTH DALE IT'S ri more advanced three-man Apollo ships began in 1968. Skylab space station flights followed.

Mattingly noted that the technical, magazine, Aviation Week, recently published an extensive article on the Russian Soyuz. The magazine con on no-fault Analysis of both sides say that they remain optimistic, about reaching a agreement, they may have only three or four more weeks until the Legislature adjourns for this session. Sen. Jack Davies, DFL-Minneapolis, who has worked for passage of no-fault since 1967, did say Monday that he was dis- nmlrcu White Kid Slinx Shop Joffeet Mon. 110 Nicollet Mall Flight Continued on pa 2B a hi "ii turbed by the decision of the three House conferees to take a seven-day break in the negotiations.

The House conferees said after last Wednesday's session that they would not be available to meet again until this Thursday. The entire House shut down yesterday and today, mainly to allow out-state members to attend their precinct caucuses tonight. Davies said that the con poller Sandal, Thun. 'Til 8:30 P.M. 50th at France, Edina llii it ft mm Mm A Minneapolis man and woman in their late 60s have gotten a divorce in order to pep up their marriage.

It's a delightful story. The details come from Thomas R. Barrett Jr. of 7330 Gallagher Edina, who gave them to me on the promise the couple would not be identified. It has to do with their relatives who don't know yet.

The couple, Henry, 68, and Sarah, 67, had been married 43 years. It was a good marriage that produced three children. A few years ago the couple found themselves alone. "We weren't used to really being alone and we started to get on each other's nerves," said Henry, a retired sales executive. "Nothing serious, but it appeared as if we were going to grow old together very ungracefully." They were bickering a hit one day when a friend, in jest, allowed as how maybe they should get a divorce.

They all laughed. "But later that night we talked about it again," said Henry. "We thought it would be an interesting adventure to get divorced and start all over again." Why not just separate and start again? "No, we felt the divorce would lend the effort needed to make it a real-life experience," said Henry. Sarah, it was agreed, would be the plaintiff. She charged Henry with "conduct detrimental to the marriage." Said Sarah: "It was the only charge that didn't sound nasty." Sarah asked for nothing and Henry didn't show up thus, the divorce was granted by default.

Sarah remained in their southwest Minneapolis home, and Henry moved to a downtown apartment. It was agreed they would spend a month without contacting each other. Henry lasted only two weeks. He telephoned Sarah and asked if she would like to have dinner with him. She was all for it, and they dined amid the violins at the Flame Room.

"All right, for some people it might sound silly," said Sarah. 'But we really enjoyed it. We hadn't had so much fun in years. There was a feeling' of freedom between us." The courting continued. It included two trips one to Florida, the other to Maine.

To avoid complications, they checked into hotels as Mr. and Mrs. "Imagine living in sin in your 60s," said Sarah. They still are living apart and both also enjoy the times when they are alone. "When you're retired and living together, you're never alone," said Henry.

"You forget the joy of doing just what you want without having to worry about the, other one. And she can do what she wants. Then, when you want, you got together." Sarah and Henry don't advocate the life for anyone else, unless it might be appealing. "It's great for us, but thai doesn't mean it would be the answer for others," said Henry. Would they marry again? "We don't exclude any possibility," said Henry.

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