Word: charleston
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...glad to be married to." The indefatigable Composer-Director-Impresario Gian Carlo Menotti was at it again, in what could be the greatest -and riskiest-romance of his long career in music and the performing arts: launching an American version of Italy's Spoleto Festival in Charleston, S.C. Menotti created the original festival in June 1958, transforming the quiet old Umbrian hill town of Spoleto into an international center of the arts...
...Charleston's clean and narrow streets, cloistered gardens and the pastel colors of its colonial houses readily ratify Menotti's sense of what makes a good set. As the twelve-day festival began last week, the question was whether the exquisitely languid dowager city would prove a worthy audience...
...guests at official White House lunches or dinners are "average Americans." The President plans to make other brief forays around the country, settling down for the night in the homes of private citizens. After his visit to Clinton this week, Carter will travel to Charleston, W. Va., for a conference on energy and coal, and then hop up to New York City to deliver a U.N. address that will outline his general views on foreign policy...
Fleming Greene Vinson Charleston...
...meeting, Chapin announced that a group of U.S. banks had agreed to extend for a year a $72.5 million credit that expired Jan. 31. Also, A.M.C. negotiated the sale of stamping-plant equipment in South Charleston, W. Va., to Volkswagen. Though A.M.C. will now have to buy parts from Volkswagen, the sale will raise much-needed cash. How much, Chapin will not say, but it appears that A.M.C. will be able to redeem some $20.5 million in notes held by the Union Bank of Switzerland that come...