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Deciding that "teaching was too hard on my vocal cords," he took a job selling insurance, then set about painstakingly acquiring a vocal technique from teachers in the area. At 25, having won a vocal competition in nearby Reggio Emilia, he was awarded an engagement in a local production of La Bohème. Within the span of three weeks, he married Adua and sang his first Rodolfo. His debut led to other bookings in Italy and, eventually, at minor houses all over Europe. La Scala offered him a job as a house stand-by for all its tenor roles...
...when he was 27, he got a job as stand-by for Giuseppe di Stefano in a Covent Garden production of La Bohème and sang several performances. Conductor Richard Bonynge heard him and was "bowled over." Eventually, Pavarotti found himself singing with Bonynge's wife, Joan Sutherland, in a Miami production of Lucia di Lammermoor. To Sutherland's skeptical eye, this strapping unknown looked like "a big schoolboy." But to her ear? "Well, it was absolutely phenomenal ? the fabulous resonance, the shading, such range, such security." The Bonynges signed him up for a 14-week tour of Australia...
...living: the company strongly rejected that because of the potential high cost. In the end, the union accepted the company's counteroffer to make periodic increases to help protect pensioners against rising prices. During the next three years, workers under 62 who retire after 30 years on the job will get $800 a month to start. Then they will get two in creases in the first year and further boosts in the second and third year. At the end of the contract these retired workers could be receiving as much as $935, or 33.5% more than the present pension...
Another important union demand was that the company increase the number of paid personal holidays so that more workers would be kept on the job. The company agreed to increase paid days off (not counting vacation) from 12 to 26 during the life of the contract. Pending ratification, neither side would discuss the noneconomic improvements or the size of the increases in the cost-of-living clause and pay rates. One unofficial estimate put the wage increase at between 9% and 12%. At present the combined basic wage rate for all classes of GM workers is $9 an hour...
...England President Charles F. Butler, a former CAB official, ruefully concedes that his customers have had a rough time this year. Says he: "We did a hell of a job on the traveling public this summer. We made a shambles of things." The usual problems were aggravated by squabbles with the unions. In June the pilots staged a slowdown to express their ire over the pace of negotiations for a new contract; more than 500 flights were delayed that month; and 15% were canceled. In July more than 800 out of 6,300 flights were either late or scrubbed because...