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“that it was often forgotten that this ,

city. was once second in the empire,
its inventors had given-the world
steam to power the industrial revo-

. lution and its engineers. countless *

bals would’be thrown back; talk .
and people ©

/new ‘confidence. : :
Most..of the city’s: superb : Vics.

torian buildings have been cleaned .
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red sandstone. They've just taken
the wraps. off-Kelvin*Hall’and it

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formes’ auditorium :. -has- also” been:
‘worked on inside ‘and’ is ‘now! a

Sports, complex. “At a, ‘reception
. there - I saw:a_ sign: sve, f football ..

the

Business has come back as “well _
computer business ‘and service in-

But right) now. all. the ‘talk Ss
‘about . the Glasgow Garden ‘Festi-
val, which has just been opened by
Prince.Charles and Princess Diana
and runs until Sept. 26:

It’s.a wonderful tartan Expo on
the banks of the River Clyde, built
around an old inner city dock, the
Princes, whose basin now serves as
the festival marina. ~

“=") crossed, the Clyde: ona new
_bridge from the Scottish Trade and

Convention’. Centre near where

': Forum Hotels is byilding. a 285-

room tower and ‘walked into a
comedy act featuring two charac-

ters whose desert routine oad the:

crowd in stitches.
» Pressing. on J). admired -
touches of. .Victoriana .on

‘Then ! hopped.on a train for a cir-
cuit and got off -at-the marina
where one side has been made into
“a beach’ with.a
at the tops.

An IBM Infopoint: showed’ the:
, Way to the. Streetcars,. or. trams as"

they. call them hierc. And it was the
seal thing in green. and, i

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buildings. and then stopped: again -
to listen to a school: orchestra.:

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