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Reporter Gets 3 Scoops as Heat Drives Us Bananas 4" fa? First, Joseph Lash fetched the dish. Glass and flat-bottomed and long enough to accommodate a banana lying supine. Then, he sliced a choice Chiquita lenghwise and laid it open. Next, he put a scoop of vanilla ice cream on the banana and flanked it with two more scoops, one strawberry and on epistachio. Then he blanketed the af fair with gobs of whipped cream and sprinkled chopped pecans atop the shippwd cream.

Finally, he planted a maraschino cherry in the center of it all and PETEIl COUTKOS lifted it onto the counter, in front of Laura Thompson, a slim youngster of 7. For a brief moment, she appeared overwhelmed by the Everest of calories before her. Then she reached for a spoon. There's Yum-Yum in Her Eyes Whatever her upbringing might have told her about plunging headlong into banana spokts. there was yum yum in her eyes and when she lifted her face from the banana split.

was cooler than a penguin on a six-pack. Taking her cue from Laura, 6-year-old Carna Sooy launched an assault on a fudge sundae that left it in tatters by the fourth spoonful. "I like sundaes." confided the moppet, in case it had escaped anyone's attention. -Seated on a nearby stoof, a stout-ish woman jacked up her ink-drenched I. shes and regarded the kids with a look that had envy written all over it.

Then she returned glumly to her dollop of cottage cheese nestling in a half of honeydew. "For a while, ice cream sales were off, everybody was terribly weight-conscious," said Lash, counterman at Rumpelmayer's-in-the-St. Moritz Hotel for more than 15 years. "Now people are getting back to ice cream," he went on. "They probably figure they can't give up all the good things in life." For the banana split, which cost $3.95, end the fudge sundae, the tab totaled $6.21, which added a lot of calories to the cash register.

Meanwhile, back at the counter, Laura Thompson appeared to be well on her way to setting a new mark for finishing off a banana split, indoors. Without coming up for air. News photo by Mary DiBiase Kama Sooy, 6 and Laura Thompson, 8, approve fare at Rumpelmayer's. it looked like a shaving cream commercial. Her tongue reached out to retrieve remnants of pistachio, strawberry and vanilla.

Then she buried her spoon into the banana spoit once more. Out on Central Park South, the temperature had escalated to 92 and flies were dropping like people, but here, inside Laura Thompson's tummy, inside Rumpelmayer's. New York's premier ice cream parlor, it Warn Queensboro Bridge May Be Like the London By ROBERT GELINE The Queensboro Bridge could, at almost any time, start falling down concrete block by concrete block, the city maintenance engineer in charge of the span testified yesterday. JL I there is a possibility of some of these slabs falling down and hitting it was determined that regular monthly inspections would be necessary to be sure that the bridge, or sections of it, ere not in imminent da nger of collapse. He added that he had been told that the city now "doesn't have the manpower" to do the regfular inspections.

Planning Commission Chairman Victor Ma rrero waid the issue was one "that cannot be The commission directed that fjlrther study and analysis of the problems be made by the city and Ba ldwin with findings leporoed to the commission before it makes a decision on the plan. News photo Dan Godfrey Rust-flaked girder of Queensboro Bridge upper roadway, part of general deeay. people below," Francis P. Valentine said. "The bridge is in no danger of collapse, but there ard deficiencces." Valentine, who testified at a City Planning Commission hearing, said he was the Highway Department's chief engineer in charge of tghe bridge's maintenance.

his testimony came during the commission's consideration of a plan by developer Harley Baldwin to build a food market and restaurant complex under the aging bridge over the East River. It was built in 1912. ings with Highway Department officials Valentine estimated thac the bridge needs about $16 million worth of repairs, including a "major rehabilitation" of its drainage system. Hearing that, Planning Commissioner Vice Chairman Martin Gallent recalled that drainage system problems had been involved in the collapse of a portion of the West Dise Highway in 1973. Baldwin disputed the potential danger to users of his planned facility.

He said that no bridge slabs were going to iall down. But he acknowledged that in meet- Lefky Asks Legis Overrule Court Albany (News Bureau) Attorney the state District Attorney Association, not keep records for audit unless they were checked while a grand jury was sitting, the other ruling said. "Those rulings stop every white collar Hynes, "and stop the nursing home probe." Lefkowitz was hopeful that the legislature would act swiftly and pass the legislation before it recesses this week. General Louis Lefkowitz made a hurried trip here yesterday to urge legislation to meet "a crisis" among law enforcement officials that he said was caused by two rulings made by the State Court of Appeals last Friday. Lefkowitz, who was accompanied by Special Nursing Home Prosecutor Charles Hynes and representatives of said Gov.

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