Word: upkeep
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Charles Howard, 69, a fat, hearty apple grower whose unshaken belief in Santa Clans led him in 1937 to start a school for St. Nicks in Albion, N.Y., teaching all-round jolliness, beard upkeep and child psychology, all of which he practiced himself in Manhattan as Macy's incomparable Santa for 15 years; of a pulmonary embolism; in Newfane...
After taxes, that would hardly cover the upkeep on Muslim Leader Elijah Muhammad's 18-room Chicago mansion. Clay's handlers were looking for still another nobody for Cassius to fight before he reports for the draft, perhaps in June. Henry Cooper seems to fill the bill best: the latest in a long line of swooning British heavyweights, he can be cut by a slice of bread, and he is now 31. Besides, Clay knocked him out three years...
Councillors and residents alike said the Authority did not have enough men to maintain proper upkeep of the projects. Mahoney declared that the Authority's practice of paying money (some $70,000 last year) to the City "in lieu" of taxes was "nonsense." The money should be used to increase services, he said...
Even royalty has been affected by the wage-price spiral. Though Belgium's King Baudouin and Queen Fabiola cut back their palace staff from 302 to 188, wages have risen so much that the King has been spending almost all his income on upkeep. At his request. Parliament last week voted him a $160,000 raise in salary to $1,000,000 a year. To make sure that he will not be caught in such straits again, Parliament also decreed that Baudouin's wages, like those of every Belgian union man, will henceforth include an automatic cost...
...took the U.S. 72 years to acknowledge its debt. In 1952 Congress passed a law that provided a "suitable" monument for Brumidi's grave, and an endowment for its upkeep. That was the least it could do for the immigrant artist who signed his name simply: "C. Brumidi, artist, citizen...