Word: interests
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...will. Yet his statement on French television last week that he was turning the April 27 referendum into a vote of confidence caught most French citizens by surprise. For one thing, the issues hardly seemed important enough for De Gaulle to stake his career on them. For another, interest in the referendum has been so slight that the outcome is by no means certain. A poll taken a few days before his speech indicated that 52% of the electorate planned either not to cast ballots at all or were undecided how they would vote.Of the remaining 48%, the sampling...
Today, though, there is a growing interest in Rossini, and last week Milan's La Scala revived one of his most difficult operas: The Siege of Corinth. A papier-mache tragedy about the Turkish conquest of Greece in the 15th century, it was not well liked at its Naples premiere in 1820; the audience expected Rossini's usual opera buffa, not blood and fireworks. The work fared little better elsewhere in Italy. Audiences found it too moralistic; singers were terrorized by its complexities. In fact, it was last heard at La Scala more than a century...
Raising Hell. To revive interest, some firms have been forced to provide more outlets for the idealism of the young. Davis, Polk & Wardwell, as well as other well-established Manhattan firms, cooperate in programs whereby their junior staff members work one night a week at Legal Aid Society offices in ghetto neighborhoods. The young lawyers are allowed to take the firm's time during the day to handle the cases of the poor who seek their services at night. Going one step farther, a Baltimore firm-Piper & Marbury-plans to open its own office in the city...
Washington's first big salvo against conglomerate corporations came only last month. It was fired by the Justice Department, which announced plans for an antitrust suit to divest Ling-Temco-Vought of its controlling interest in Jones & Laughlin Steel. Last week, "multimarket" companies, as they prefer to be called, quavered again as the Federal Trade Commission took aim at a merger by another big concern, Los Angeles-based Litton Industries...
Litton's latest merger is far smaller than James Ling's $425 million J. & L. deal, and does not even involve an American concern. The FTC's target is a pair of West German typewriter makers in which Litton (1968 sales: $1.9 billion) bought a majority interest last January. Their worldwide sales total some $52 million, but only $7.5 million comes from the U.S., where their Triumph-Adler brand of typewriters accounts for a minuscule share of the market. But the FTC complains that the acquisition tends to "lessen competition" in violation of the Clayton Antitrust...