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...taxation." As a result, added Steelman Tata, businessmen show "universal gloom, despondency and uncertainty about the future." K. P. Goenka, president of the powerful Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry, charged that past 16 months have brought "no substantial additions to any major industry," and G. L. Mehta, chairman of the Indian Investment Center, complained that so many efforts to float stock issues have flopped that "underwriters have become undertakers...
...there was delight for the ear as well as the eye; from the first bright sounds of Richard Strauss's Fanfare, it was clear that the Pavilion was a superb musical instrument. The Los Angeles Philharmonic's brilliant young (28) Indian conductor, Zubin Mehta, showed the acoustics off with one of Respighi's chiaroscuro set pieces called Feste Romane, whose chief virtue is that it includes the most delicate pianissimos as well as the most plangent brass. The sweeping gold acoustical canopy carried the sound, clear and unblurred, to the furthest seat. And when Violinist Jascha Heifetz...
...both highly accessible and highly visible, giving Los Angeles a new visual axis, with the building handsomely anchoring the new mall that leads to City Hall. Moreover, the center is recognized as a milestone in the city's cultural aspirations. Immediately after the opening number, Conductor Mehta turned to the audience and with some Indian ambiguity addressed himself to the occasion...
...list of some 20 possible candidates. "I'm a great one for getting all the expert opinion I can," says Buff. "Then, after everybody has registered his view, somebody has got to say 'That's it-let's go.' This is my job." So Mehta it was. In Zubin Mehta's case, it was a job well done. He has made the orchestra one of the best in the country, and his programming last year-mostly modern works-was considered masterly...
...yesterday." Later, they pitched a tent on the sidewalk and started selling their own coffee at 25 paise a cup. Soon a Price Resistance Committee was organized to spread the boycott to other restaurants and shops. Among the joiners were Chidambaram Subramaniam, India's Food Minister, and Asoka Mehta, deputy chairman of India's Planning Commission...