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...contrast to the regular diversions of newspapers, pinochle and the bar car. "I'd normally be standing in the gin mill four cars forward," said John Bunbury of Monsanto. "The socializing and the standing keep you awake so that you don't miss your stop." As the conductor announced Huntington, no one seemed to have minded skipping his drink. The train was on time-something of a rarity in itself-but delays along the line would not necessarily be bad. They would simply allow more time for learning the Principles of Marketing...
That kind of cool is indispensable for Rudel as he pursues one of the busiest schedules in the music world. After 14 years as director and chief conductor of the New York City Opera, Rudel is now also music director of Washington's new John F. Kennedy Center. As if that were not work enough, he is also consultant to the Wolf Trap Farm summer festival in Vienna, Va., and is music director of both the Cincinnati May Festival and the elegant, intimate Caramoor summer festival in New York's Westchester County...
Economist's Talent. Gray-haired but athletic at 50, Rudel has an uncanny ability to get things done, an economist's talent for budget balancing and a gift for inspiring loyalty in colleagues. As a conductor-the job he likes best-Rudel is almost wholly devoid of showy theatricality; yet his taste, musicianship and sense of rhythm are faultless, and he is at home in an unusually wide variety of styles. Says Soprano Beverly Sills: "I think he is one of the greatest opera conductors in the world...
...want to know." Rudel came to the U.S. in 1938 as a teen-age refugee from Vienna. Studying music on scholarships at settlement schools and later at Manhattan's Mannes College, he supported himself by working part time in a button-dyeing factory. After graduation he became assistant conductor at Mannes at a salary of $35 a month. "We used to turn in the milk bottles so he would have enough money to go to work," remembers his wife Rita. A neuropsychologist, she raised their two daughters (now married) and Son Anthony, 14, more or less on the side...
...used to transfer heat from inside the reactor's core to a steam-producing boiler outside. Unlike conventional reactors, which use water as a coolant, the so-called liquid-metal "fast breeders" planned by the AEC will use liquid sodium, which is an extremely efficient thermal conductor. But since sodium also burns in air and reacts strongly with water, it requires elaborate safeguards to prevent a mishap that could leak radioactive materials...