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...Worcester (Mass.) County National Bank, for instance-loom large indeed. But while many big new buildings, in the name of progress, merely take, Roche's buildings give-pleasant plazas or little parks and improved working conditions. Union Carbide's complex is only four stories high. Conoco, near Houston, consists of three-story buildings clustered around an artificial lake. General Foods, in Rye, N.Y., in harmony with surrounding residential buildings, is seven stories high...
...London and Buenos Aires. In one grueling eight-day period he could have adjusted his watch 22 times, far exceeding Kissinger's single-zone hops between Syria, Israel and Egypt. Following an 18-hr, flight from Argentina, Haig, who underwent triple coronary bypass surgery two years ago in Houston, plunged into eleven hours of talks with British officials...
Elsewhere, in the deciding game of their best-of-three mini-series, the Seattle Supersonics moved into the Western Conference semifinals with a 104-83 victory over the Houston Rockets in Seattle. The Sonics, who beat Houston, 102-87, in the first game but dropped a 91-70 decision Friday night, will now play San Antonio, which received a first-round bye Phoenix will meet Los Angeles in the other Western Conference semifinal series...
...Previn? The Berlin-born music director of the Pittsburgh Symphony, Previn, 53, came to the U.S. in 1939, when his parents fled Hitler. First active as a jazz pianist and arranger-winning four Academy Awards for his film scores-he got his start conducting in a post in Houston but attracted wide notice only after he was appointed to lead the London Symphony. Even in Pittsburgh, he is still strongly identified with English music. Another prominent member of this generation, Thomas Schippers, died at 47 in 1977. The music director of the Cincinnati Symphony was an opera conductor with...
Even if an American has all the qualifications, does he have a chance at a top post? "If you have two people at the same point in their careers, then there probably is an advantage to being European," says Gideon Toeplitz, executive director of the Houston Symphony. "In America, there's a mystery behind being Indian or Japanese or European that contributes greatly from a marketing point of view." Adds another major orchestra manager: "Orchestras are always looking for that extra presence that leaps across the footlights, charisma. The foreign element may add to that...