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...Vienna Philharmonic's 140 musicians are among the world's busiest; they spell each other in concerts, the Vienna Opera pit and recording sessions (the orchestra has probably been recorded more often than any other). Most remarkable of all, it is a cooperative group, rules itself democratically and feels no need for a permanent musical director. Secure in the memory of having been conducted by Brahms, Mahler and Richard Strauss, it has the sure flexibility of a string quartet, a sense of inner joy not matched by other, more overpowering orchestras. In time, it may even convert American...
...some 7 billion ton-miles annually-more tonnage over a greater distance than either the Kiel or the Panama Canal. Touching every major Gulf port, it has helped boost New Orleans into the nation's No. 2 seaport, transformed Houston from an inland city into one of the busiest U.S. ports, handling $500 million worth of waterway cargo alone last year, including everything from autos to seashells. The waterway has also opened up the Gulf's vast natural resources at bargain-basement prices. By using strings of heavily laden barges, businessmen can ship goods north and south...
...busiest men in West Germany last week were Egyptians. It was their job, in a desperate response to calls for help from Cairo, to comb the Kiel Canal and other German waterways in search of pilots skillful and experienced enough to guide a ship through the Suez. For the one thing Colonel Nasser cannot do without, if he is to run the canal successfully, is pilots. Any day now all but a handful of the pilots needed to keep boats moving may leave their jobs. If they do, and traffic piles up, a new and crucial phase of the Suez...
...Francisco and checked through the West Executive Avenue gate of the White House one day last week, he brought with him a new assignment to add to his already considerable duties. For the next nine weeks he will not only be covering the President of the U.S., already the busiest man in the world, but also the Republican candidate for the presidency in the election campaign. The pace was already accelerated: Steele found himself finishing up one story at 1 a.m., hustling back to the White House for ceremonies on the South Lawn at 8 a.m. the same morning...
...Normandy coast, 120 miles away. In old Deauville (pop. 5,438) they unpack their purses at three luxury hotels, two race tracks, six nightclubs, a pair of golf courses, 24 tennis courts, a yacht basin, theater, music hall, polo field, clay-pigeon shoot and one of Europe's busiest and most sumptuous casinos. Says a French social commentator: "Deauville is to Paris what Pompeii was to Rome...