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VERDI: NABUCCO (3 LPs; London). Lamberto Garelli, conducting the Vienna Opera Orchestra, has produced an unexpected smash hit. The biggest surprise is Elena Suliotis, a 23-year-old Greek soprano who has arrived like a gift from Olympus for opera fans who want Msria Callas reborn. Their voices have striking similarities: three-octave range, "white" tone, unflinching attack. But whereas Callas used all her skills and wiles to project a so-so voice, Suliotis is blessed with a strong, clear instrument that never quavers. It will be some time before she matches Callas' artistry, but in the florid role...
...most efficient finder of lost alumni-60,000 since 1962-is Manhattan's Tracers Company of America; alumni tracing is now the biggest part of its business. Tracers General Manager Edward Goldfader estimates that colleges could gain $20 million a year by dunning all of their lost grads. Tracers, which gets between $3 and $5 for each alumnus it finds, employs 18 people armed with U.S. telephone books, city directories, social registries, professional and business directories, even some voting lists. Thirteen field agents check local probate records...
...CRIA) was set up in the U.S. by museums and college art departments, with Jacqueline Kennedy as its active president. Its aim: to raise $2,500,000 for salvage operations. One of its first acts: to dispatch 16 expert restorers to the site to help out. But the biggest requirement is helping hands. One California art historian, Eve Borsook of Pasadena, who rescued 130,000 negatives of art objects from the Uffizi, rushed them to Harvard's Villa I Tatti in Florence, the former hilltop home of Connoisseur Bernard Berenson. Then she carefully washed them one by one, saved...
...bullish 1965, the No. 1 glamour stock was Fairchild Camera and Instrument, which soared from a low of 27 ¼ to a high of 165 ¼, the biggest percentage gain of the year. The company owed its gargantuan gain to its pinpoint-tiny microcircuits-the new electronic marvels that bond and fuse complete, complex electrical circuits onto a sliver of silicon. In early 1966, Fairchild stock continued to rocket, finally hit 2161, a hefty 65 times earnings, before it began to recede. Last week it went into a big fall, and took other electronics stocks down with...
French industry is atomized into countless small, family-owned firms, whose self-satisfied owners are often reluctant to risk expansion or spend for modernization. Of the 30 biggest industrial companies outside the U.S., twelve are German, ten British, but only two are French (Renault and Rhône-Poulenc). Expansion capital is hard to come by. Frenchmen are wary of investing, often prefer to sock their savings into real estate and gold. They have seen too many investments demolished by wars and inflations, and their fears have hardly been allayed by the 40% plunge in the French stock market since...