Word: augments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Edwards and Carter quickly got into a fuss over when Edwards should give up the 18-room, three-story presidential mansion-a key fringe benefit to augment the post's $16,000 salary. One morning, Edwards was reading on his patio when the caretaker discovered that the water had been shut off-on Carter's orders, it developed. Electricity and heat also faded. Edwards' 17-year-old daughter had to dress at a neighbor's house for her high school graduation. Edwards called the cutoff "an outrage." Carter called Edwards "rude and obstinate." Furious, students hanged...
...Mandolin Festival in Verviers, Belgium (July 3). Florence's Maggio Musicale (through June 20) will repeat its popular production of Director-Set Designer Franco Zef-ferelli's Euridice, while Composer Gian Carlo Menotti's Festival of Two Worlds at Spoleto, Italy (June 24-July 18), will augment its opera and concert season with Jerome Robbins' new production of Stravinsky's L'Histoire du Soldat and five performances of the New York City Ballet...
...calibre downhill trail has also been completed, with a maximum gradient of 80 degrees. A new mid-mountain restaurant has also been added this year. Madonna Mountain (formerly Smuggler's Notch) near Stowe has replaced two with a new 5700-foot Hall double chair to augment last year's 6600 foot chair. A new glant sialoza trail has been out which drops 3163 foot in 2.5 miles. The new developments provide easy sucess to the Spruce Peak area at Stowe...
...Image. Whether Albert will have to count consistently on a few Republicans to augment his majority remains to be seen. At any rate, the G.O.P. minority in the House was undergoing upheaval too. Last month Michigan's Gerald Ford (see following story) had challenged the floor leadership of Charlie Halleck-on the grounds that old Charlie just did not fit the forward-looking image the party needed. Backing Ford was a group of rebels, including Wisconsin's Mel Laird, chairman of the G.O.P. Convention's Platform Committee at San Francisco, who went after the chairmanship...
...calibre downhill trail has also been completed, with a maximum gradient of 30 degrees. A new mid-mountain restaurant has also been added this year. Madonna Mountain (formerly Smuggler's Notch) near Stowe has replaced two pomas with a new 5700-foot Hall double chair to augment last year's 6600 foot chair. A new giant slalom trail has been cut which drops 2168 feet in 2.5 miles. The new developments provide easy access to the Spruce-Peak area at Stowe...