European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 04, 1980, Darmstadt, Hesse                                If the Tower should Ever give scratch that building at the right which houses the tourist office and a Telephone Exchange. By Chuck Freadhoff staff writer Valiry morning Androni Pic Giorgio slips be Hind his desk .11 work and greets his customers with n smile blithely uncaring that Jusi Yards away one of the world s great architectural attractions is looming Ever closer to falling on him. The leaning Tower of Pisa Well sure it s out their. Heading right in his direction he said but he does t really think about  is an administrator for the italian National Telephone company. On a sunny Day his office literally sits in the Shadow of the Umer. With typical latin aplomb Pic Giorgio said if it comes Down there s nothing he can do about it. All he really asks is a Little warning so i can run like hell he said. The Telephone office opened in 1�76 across the Hall from the tourist Bureau. Raf Faculo Grassini the office manager said the plume company did l even think about the Tower wiping out its installation when it decided to set up it offices. The phone company moved in he said because the  was available and it s close to the tourist office. The two offices sit in a Long narrow building Al the end closest to the lower. The rest of the building used to be a Convent. Piero Gabrielli tourist officer manager said. One night recently for reasons known Only to them selves the Sisters packed their bags and departed abandoning the building to More secular callings. The people of Pisa Don t Eten think about the Tower Fulling. Gabrielli said. The people in Rome or the people in the rest of the country May worry about in but it s something i Dnn f think  in fact. Gabrielli said the Only time workers in the tourist Bureau mention the Tower s possible Tumble is when they re giving people directions on the phone. We Tell them we re right next to the Tower so if it collapses Well be under it. Hut that s the Only Lime we mention  he said then Shook his fist. A Good Luck sign he explained. Vhal s the latest line on when the Tower s coming Down it changes Gabrielli said. One year they say it s sinking and the next year they say it s slopped. Maybe in will fall in another 100 years. Inside Otter guard Bruno Bortolini was doing what he has done for the last do in years trying to funnel the flocks of tourist past the turnstile and up the lower s Steps. Asked if it will fall he shrugged his shoulders smiled and said if they Don t come out Here and Start Irving to fix in it won t  Andreoni Piergiorgi i can run like  Piero Gabrielli it s something i Don t think  wednesday. June 4, 1980 the stars and stripes Pogo 13