WASHINGTON (UPI) — The
federal government said Thurs-
day it has spent nearly $2
mulion on President Nixon's
homes in Key Biscayne, Fla.,
and San Clemente. Calif.

The General Services Ad-
ministration (GSA), the federal
housekeeping agency, said
$1,180,522.54 was spent on
Improvement and maintenance
at the Key Biscayne compound
and $703.367.20 was spent for the
San Clemente estate. The San
Clemente figure was revised
upward from a little over
$400.000 and the Key Biscayne
total was the first of its kind.

The GSA released the figures
from official audits it took
following varying reports of the
eost to the government for
additions and improvements.

A White House spokesman
Said all of the money spent was
for security or security-related
items.

The spokesman said none of
the work done on either the

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By Associated Pree

Jersey Clty, N. J. March 6—
Cimhing through cold blue ekier
more than five and one-half miles
over Jersey and Manhattan today,
Miss Ruth ‘Nichols, Rye, N. ¥.
flyer, who holds coast-to-coast
speed marks, set an unofflcin al.
titude record for women.

The altimeter on her apredy
Lockheed-Vegu monoplane showei
neatly 80,054 feet. The sealed
barograph placed in the plane by
the Matlonal Acronuutical Associa-
fon Immediately wus shipped to
Washington for examination
Moskews 29.00% fect, qr more, Misr
Nichols will ‘be awarded tbe rec-
ord now heid by Elinor Smith,
young Long Island flyer,

Miss Nichols was informed that
to attaln recogr! th as the record
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