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...Kansas City production, deftly directed by Ellis Rabb and churned to a fine froth by Conductor Nicola Rescigno, skipped along with the sauce and savoir-faire of a boulevardier on the Champs Elysées. Effective as the singing was-notably Frank Porretta's mugging Orpheus, Jack Bittner's crafty Jupiter and Jeanette Scovotti's vapid Eurydice-it was almost overshadowed by Zachary Solov's spirited, stylish choreography, brilliantly danced by New York City Ballet Stars Melissa Hayden and Jacques D'Amboise. With the help of Jack G. O'Brien's updated English...
...change: buying and selling businesses ("Anybody can buy; knowing when to sell is another story"), he now owns 94 companies and a personal fortune of at least $100 million. And they know him at the bank. "There are only three of us on the Champs Elysées," Floirat says expansively, "who can sign a check at a minute's notice for $2,000,000. Dassault, the airplane maker, the Rothschilds...
...banks seized by Nyerere. Owners of lucrative sisal plantations were resigned to an expected takeover of their lands. Already more than 500 Asians have been ordered to leave Tanzania for failing to take out residence permits. Asians have been cursed, reviled and threatened during frenzied street demonstrations in Dar es Salaam by emerald-shirted black youths dubbed "the Green Guards" by Socialist Nyerere, who so admires Red China that he last week proclaimed the observance of the Chinese New Year in Tanzania...
Having the Italian government as chief stockholder of parent ENI also helps. Two state agencies, Mediobanca and Istituto Mobiliare Italiano last week agreed to lend Zambia $30 million to pay Progetti for an oil pipeline from landlocked Zambia to Dar es Salam on the Tanzania coast...
Charles de Gaulle fussed like a nervous host. He recited to his Cabinet the list of official visitors. He lined the Champs Elysées with hundreds of the visitors' flags, authorized an unprecedented 101-gun salute and ordered up a 70-car motorcade and a 50-man motorcycle escort. He called for a gala performance by the Paris Opéra ballet company, even summoned Opéra Director Georges Auric to ask him to "do it right for us, because they always do it so well themselves...