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...Keen Dryden, star goalie for Cornell University, made his first appearance in the World Amateur Hockey Tournament in Stockholm, Sweden, Tuesday, leading Canada to a 1-0 shutout victory over the winless United states squad. The setback was the Americans' seventh...
...duce a single pleasing harmony. Ever since she began singing under his demanding baton, Miss Nilsson's relation ship with the Salzburg-born maestro has become increasingly sour. Among other things, she has been irked by his insistence on unusually time-consuming rehearsals and is not too keen about his dark, brooding lighting effects, which often keep the singers in the shadows. "I could walk out for coffee sometimes," Miss Nilsson once complained to Rudo. lf Bing, general manager of New York City's Metropolitan Opera, "and no one would know the difference...
Many of the other keen, questing intellects also left. Johnson was always a man who took public issues personally; dissent of any kind became increasingly intolerable to him. With many intellectuals in loud and often unreasonable opposition, his old feelings of insecurity and inferiority about his rural background and mediocre education became more pronounced...
...corruption. Italian industry thinks only of the expansion of consumption. And it is not with culture, but with money, that one buys." Many of the critics, particularly the protesting student extremists, take their prosperity for granted and never knew the general privation of times past. Gianni Agnelli has a keen understanding of the social dissent. "The people of the older generation compare the life that they had with the life of the young today and see how much better off they are," says he. "From that grows the gap in understanding. But the young are saying that we could have...
...were bound to rise. Such expectations become powerful economic forces, creating an inflationary psychology that is now firmly embedded in the thinking of businessmen, labor leaders and investors. Even after the tax increase, consumers rushed to buy practically everything. Their appetite for the well-styled 1969 autos was particularly keen; sales this year will reach an alltime high of about 9,600,000 cars. The U.S., with its 60 million families and 100 million cars, is fast approaching the reality of two cars in every garage...