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...Congress has allocated $100,000 a year toward its upkeep. But even with a further $220,000 from the Post Foundation, the amount falls far short of the estimated $1 million a year required to keep the place in proper trim. Clearly, this Post serial will be continued...
...past two years, the construction management division has split from the planning office and responsibility for day-to-day upkeep of the University-owned property and buildings has been shifted to Harvard Real Estate...
...foggy memory on some of these points last Friday caused sharp exchanges with Subcommittee Chairman Benjamin Rosenthal. When asked about his total wealth, Bunker Hunt replied in a manner that recalled J.P. Morgan's famous quote that people who have to ask the cost of the annual upkeep of yachts cannot afford them. Said he: "I don't have the figures in my head. People who know how much they're worth aren't usually worth that much...
...sole training session for the guides, Kyriazis stressed the importance of "contact upkeep." Kyriazis passed out a one-page information sheet, which instructed SHS members to "contact your freshman almost immediately for a group lunch/dinner at your House" and "procure telephone numbers." It continued: "Contact again for individual follow-up meetings (their emphasis). The document yielded only one substantive piece of counsel. "Always be informal in tone and approach...
When he was President, the idyllic 26-acre retreat on the Pacific bustled as the Western White House. After he fell from power, it provided an elegant refuge. But Richard Nixon is moving out of his San Clemente estate. Inflation has pushed the upkeep of the twelve-room, Spanish-style villa beyond his pocketbook, and last week he sold it to a group of Orange County businessmen for an undisclosed...