Word: upkeep
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Named Dark Mirage, the filly went to the post 15 times in 1967, won only two races and $19,906-barely enough to repay her purchase price and upkeep. Her first start this year as a three-year-old was equally unimpressive: she finished fourth, beaten by 7½ lengths. What has happened since beggars belief. Dark Mirage, almost certainly the smallest thoroughbred in training in the U.S., has not lost a race...
...volunteer workers in 52 countries, it has shunned frills and pared costs, saving taxpayers roughly $45 million over four years. Peace Corps Director Jack Hood Vaughn, 47, a feisty, compact (5 ft. 8 in.) redhead, was commended by Vice President Humphrey for slashing $495 off the upkeep of each corpsman last year...
...University has indicated that because of its complex budgeting procedures all the Houses, Mather included, will have to pay for themselves. The total upkeep of the Houses will have to be balanced by the rents collected from students. If, as is to be hoped, no one is forced back to the campus and the rooms are thus filled with men from other Houses, this position amounts to a demand for a raise in room rents...
...Gallery of Modern Arton Manhattan's Columbus Circle. The star-crossed A. & P. heir first sought to benefact Columbia and Fordham universities, which hastened to decline when they got a load of the museum's $3,800,000 mortgage and $500,000 yearly upkeep; now he hopes that some philanthropic soul like Uncle Sam will enable the Organization of American States to accept his charity. On the other phone, meanwhile, Hartford has been vainly paging his third wife, Diane, 25, in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York and Monte Carlo-these being the cities that she has been...
...trying to wipe out their foreign-trade deficit and shore up the pound, which last week was shakier than it has been for a year, partly because of trade losses stemming from the war in the Middle East. Thus, the $384 million that Britain paid last year for the upkeep of bases outside Europe looked like a luxury. Healey intends to cut this figure to about $168 million by the mid-1970s...