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...from Sardi's. In Washington. But not in New York City, where there are 41 times as many Jews (1,800,000) as there are in Tel Aviv. Within 20 hours, city hall operators logged 1,677 calls, all but 19 demanding that Mayor John Lindsay call off a scheduled dinner for the King. Candidates in this week's primary elections quickly denounced the hawk-beaked desert monarch. Nearly every major Jewish organization pronounced itself outraged. Protested Dore Schary, national chairman of the B'nai B'rith Anti-Defamation League: "We believe it unseemly...
...latest guest attraction is the Los Angeles Philharmonic's brilliant young conductor Zubin Mehta, who is leading the Israelis through a schedule of 21 concerts over a period of 24 days, shuttling between Haifa, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem like a rush-hour commuter. Under Mehta's spirited attack, the orchestra's strings have bloomed into full brilliancy. Though staunchly rooted in the classics, the Israeli audiences received his reading of Bartok's First Piano Concerto, with Israeli Pianist Daniel Barenboim, as enthusiastically as they do their Brahms. Mehta was equally successful with Ravel's Daphnis...
...Lots of temperament. The orchestra is a cooperative: the musicians set their own salaries (based, among other things, on the number of family dependents rather than talent), own a $500,000 guesthouse for visiting artists as well as half-interest in the $2,800,000 Mann Auditorium in Tel Aviv, their permanent home. This, and the freedom from the discipline of a permanent conductor, has nurtured a strong streak of independence. "If the orchestra has any shortcomings," explains Mehta, "it is in its tendency toward musical anarchy. At rehearsals you suddenly find yourself in the middle of a brain trust...
...weeks ago, B'nai B'rith's Manhattan-based Anti-Defamation League charged that the Coca-Cola Co., in denying a franchise to a Tel Aviv bottler, was kowtowing to the Arab nations' boycott against foreign firms that do business with Israel. After all, noted the league, Coke has plants in 18 Arab states that might be closed down if the Tel Aviv franchise were granted...
...invisible honorary president "out there" in space, well beyond range of the astronauts. A young Washington scientist suggests that "God, if anything, is hydrogen and carbon. Then again, he might be thermonuclear fission, since that's what makes life on this planet possible." To a streetwalker in Tel Aviv...