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Price of Reform. Delighted by the House committee's action and by the probability of a House floor vote before the summer recess begins Aug. 13, Senate Democratic leaders lost no time in pressing their new advantage. Mansfield offered to extend the surtax promptly, but that would take it only to the end of November. A further extension vote by the Senate, he said, would come only after the Ways and Means reform package had made its way through both the House and Senate to the President's desk. Republicans denounced the proposition, and Minority Leader Everett Dirksen...
VERONA (through Aug. 17). Italy's oldest summer opera, now in its 47th year, offers Turandot, Aida and Don Carlo in an acoustically perfect Roman amphitheater. Tenors Carlo Bergonzi and Placido Domingo, Sopranos Birgit Nilsson and Montserrat Caballé highlight the excellent casts...
SALZBURG (July 26-Aug. 30) will not disappoint those who like the tried and true, though there will also be productions of some rarely heard operas. Emilio de' Cavalieri's The Representation of Body and Soul (1600), Giovanni Battista Pergolesi's La Serva Padrona (1733), and Mozart's Bastien und Bastienne spell Von Karajan's controversial production of Don Giovanni, and Beethoven's Fidelio under Karl Böhm's baton. The classics-heavy on Mozart, of course-will be given their due by the Vienna Philharmonic...
DUBROVNIK (through Aug. 25). The rugged scenic beauty of this Yugoslav seaport offers a feast for the eye while the ear attunes to the sounds of the Amadeus Quartet and the Zagreb Philharmonic. A glittering array of artists, including Soprano Martina Arroyo, Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, Violinist Isaac Stern, and Pianists Sviatoslav Richter and Alexis Weissenberg will all be on hand...
Mansfield's hope is that the House Ways and Means Committee, which is working on its own plan to revise the tax structure, will get its version of reform passed by the House and the Senate before Congress goes on vacation Aug. 13. Administration economists contend that if the bill is delayed until fall, the battle against inflation may be lost altogether. While the tax will continue to be withheld from paychecks until a decision is made, the wait for final approval, say Treasury experts, undercuts their efforts to slow inflation and brake the economy. On the other hand...