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Hill of the Highnesses. Leopold and Mary Liliane are waiting, too. Four years ago, after a nonstop drive from Austria, they arrived at Le Reposoir, a greystone mansion near Geneva, Switzerland. (The upkeep is $7,500 a year rent, plus wages for six servants, two secretaries.) They dream of a return to Brussels, and Le Reposoir lends itself to such dreams. Built in the 18th Century, it is nicknamed le coteau des altesses-the hill of the highnesses. Among others who have lived there and dreamed of lost diadems were Louis Bonaparte's Queen Hortense and Napoleon...
...situation is neither difficult nor expensive to remedy. The telephone company can install pay phones now; the upkeep can be paid in the same way as it is for the other dormitories. The Union Committee, in its work of smoothing the way for freshmen, should see what can be done so that next year's Yardlings will not face the same predicament...
...College Library, despite its name, has previously been supported entirely by the general funds of the University, President Conant explained. In the last fifteen years, $7,000,000 of these funds has been spent for construction or for upkeep of Widener collections, he said. This figure is about 40 percent of all the free capital funds given to the University in the same period...
...sometimes eloquent, always forthright. Stevenson laid into his rival, Republican Governor Dwight H. Green, with one haymaker after another. He accused the Green administration of shaking down Illinois businessmen, of being responsible for the deaths of in men in last spring's Centralia mine tragedy, of neglecting the upkeep of once-model state institutions. He cried: "The unconscionable spoils machine which . . . now holds the state in its grip . . . must be uprooted and the earth scorched...
Everyday Sights. Pool buyers long ago learned that the first cost of a swimming pool is only a start; there is also a fat annual fee for maintenance. In Southern California, a lot of the upkeep goes to an Ilsley maintenance subsidiary which employs 60-odd workmen, grosses...