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...virtually every musical capital of the world, the sight of Solti conducting is a familiar one. It is quite a spectacle: head down, baton held high, tails flying, he seems to spring from the wings. The leap to the podium is agile and sure; the bow to the audience curt, formal and, in the European tradition, from the waist, with the heels brought together in something just this side of a click. At this point, a Stokowski would spin showily and attack immediately. Not Solti. He turns thoughtfully, spreads his feet and shoots slitty glances around to make sure...
Certain aspects of her story strain credulity, primarily because neither intelligence agency has discussed Gill's work, other than the FBI's curt acknowledgement that she indeed informed for them. Gill herself, however, is part of the problem...
...Folke Lindskog, Svenska Kullagerfabriken (S.K.F.); Jacques G. Maisonrouge, IBM World Trade; Sir Arthur Norman, The De la Rue Co.; Dr. Aurelio Peccei, Olivetti; Count Theo Rossi Di Montelera, Martini & Rossi; Evelyn de Rothschild, N.M. Rothschild & Sons; Dermot A. Ryan, Ryan's Tourist Holdings; Nino Rovelli, Societa Italiana Resine; Curt R. Strand, Hilton International; Charles C. Tillinghast Jr., TWA; Hendrik A.C. Van Riemsdijk, Philips' Gloeilampenfabrieken; Eberhard Von Kuenheim, Bayerische Motoren Werke (B.M.W.); Gerrit A. Wagner, Royal Dutch Petroleum; Pierre Waltz, Societe Suisse pour 1'Industrie Horlogere; Dr. Joachim Zahn, Daimler-Benz...
...average at the State University of New York at Buffalo, Ronald Koval of Dover, N.J., knew that he faced tough competition when he applied for admission to medical school back in 1965. So he was not surprised when each of his eight applications was rejected, one with a curt note wishing him success in another field. But Koval refused to abandon his ambition to become a doctor. For the past seven years, he has been studying at Belgium's Free University of Brussels, and next month he will finally receive his M.D. degree...
...only official comment on the case thus far was a curt acknowledgement Monday by an assistant special agent in the FBI's Boston office, Vincent H. Rueul, that Gill had indeed worked for the Bureau in the late 1960s...