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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...
...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...
...incapable of administering the affairs of the U.M.W.," says Patterson. Patrick calls his former ally "a disaster as president." For evidence, they point to his inability to control disorderly meetings of the U.M.W.'s 21-member international board, Miller's habit of spending long weekends in Charleston, W. Va., near his home, and his failure to check the rash of wildcat coal strikes that have plagued the industry during his tenure, including last summer's prolonged walkout that idled more than 90,000 miners...