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...today!" raved the Paris-Presse. Rubinstein? Horowitz? No-and to most the name on the billboards meant nothing. But the audience that packed into Paris' Theatre des Champs-Elysees included, as one observer put it, "more pianists per square foot than ever before assembled." For among these professionals, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli has long been recognized as one of the world's best-if least known-pianists...
...ARGENTINA, President Arturo Illia stumbles from one crisis to another...
...rightfielder answered to Arturo. A guy named Doc was behind the plate. The cleanup batter called himself Hector, and his claim to fame was that he once led the league in grounding into double plays. The whole squad was hitting .212. The program said they were the New York Yankees, winners of five straight American League pennants and 2-1 favorites to make it six in a row. Baltimore Coach Billy Hunter knew better; after all, he used to play shortstop for New York. "Yankees?" snorted Hunter. "They look like the Toledo Mud Hens...
...Horowitz, 60, played on and on-but never for the public. Finally, after twelve years of self-imposed retirement, the pianist announced he would perform one more concert next week. Some 1,500 fans formed a grim, silent queue for tickets, which were so scarce that even Walter Toscanini, Arturo's boy and Horowitz's own brother-in-law, had to stand in line for three hours...
When President Arturo Illia took office 18 months ago, Argentina was in the grip of a severe, two-year recession. Deciding that the cure was increased investment in basic industry, Illia boosted the money supply 61%, curbed all but essential imports and introduced tight exchange regulations aimed at halting the flight of capital. He was partially successful. After two straight years in which G.N.P. had declined an average 4.6%, the government reported that output in 1964 rose 8.2%. In the process, however, wages and living costs both shot up 30%, while meat, grain and wool exporters began complaining that high...