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...goal, most neuroscientists today agree that much of the credit will belong to the author of that statement, Dr. Francis Otto Schmitt, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Although he is a skilled researcher in molecular biology, Schmitt is best known in his profession as a scientific impresario. He is the founder, chairman and most enthusiastic member of the M.I.T.-sponsored Neurosciences Re search Program. It is from the work of this group that a comprehensive theory of brain function could well emerge...
...soprano cannot always be prima donna assoluta, but Maria Callas, 49, does not stop behaving like one. With only three days to go before her first concert in eight years, Callas bowed out with an eye infection, plunging London Impresario Sandor Gorlinsky and 3,000 fans, some of whom had paid over ? 100 a ticket on the black market, into purgatorio. Before her vision clouded, however, Callas had seen Gorlinsky schedule her old archrival Soprano Renata Tebaldi, 51, for a London recital just 17 days after her own comeback...
...York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein conductor; Columbia, $5.98). The familiar Surprise, preceded by its stately, less frequently played older sister (by a month: both are from 1792, part of the series of twelve so-called "Salomon" symphonies written by Haydn during his sojourns in London at the behest of Impresario Johann Peter Salomon). Bernstein is at his best in this music, bringing to it the same strength, drama, wit and control he invariably applies to the last symphonies of Mozart...
...Hippie Highway. The show's promoters, after inundating newspapers and radio stations with advance publicity; announced days before the opening that the event was sold out. The unintended result was that even more people were attracted. "Woodstock was different," explained the festival's stage manager, Rock Impresario Bill Graham. "This is like going to a good restaurant where you know you'll get a good steak. We're professionals now. Rock has grown...
Over the throbbing beat of John Lennon's Give Peace a Chance, the mellifluous voice of a onetime hamburger impresario wafts daily across the Middle East air waves: "This is the voice of peace, broadcasting on 1,542 kilocycles from somewhere in the Mediterranean...