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...capital: Paris is 200 miles and a five-hour drive away, on a treacherous, obsolete two-lane highway.) The handsome new Entzheim Airport, with runways big enough to handle international jet traffic, has seven flights a day to Paris, as well as daily flights to London, Brussels and Milan...
FIRST-TIME visitors to Europe are usually impressed by something that its citizens now take for granted-the pervasive signs of economic growth and prosperity. London, Paris, Milan and Frankfurt are cacophonous with construction and clogged with cars. An international network of autostradas, Autobahnen and autoroutes links the Continent's major (and even minor) cities. In winter, such fashionable ski resorts as Gstaad, Chamonix and St. Moritz are booked solid; in summer, there is a mass migration from Europe's colder climes to such resorts as the Costa Brava and the Costa del Sol, as well...
...issue that brought out the strikers, from Milan to Manchester: living costs that are rising faster than wages. Consumer prices in the Common Market as a whole rose some 8% last year, compared with 3.3% in the U.S. The Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) warns that this year prices could rise by as much...
...when he was 24. Her son spent three years in the local high school in Cajamarca and then moved with his family to Lima in 1948, where he graduated from the Colegio National de Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe and then studied painting and sculpture, not in Milan, but at the National Fine Arts School of Peru. One of his fellow students there, Jose Bracamonte, remembers his pal Carlos as a resourceful blade who lived mainly off gambling (cards, horses, dice), and harbored "like an obsession" the wish to move to the U.S. "We all liked Carlos," recalls Bracamonte...
...Rudolf Bing spoke of creating a second opera stage for intimate performances of small-scale works unsuited to a 3,800-seat house, with the dual purpose of providing young artists with wider exposure while attracting audiences not smitten with standard repertory. But lacking a convenient junior theater like Milan's 600-seat Piccolo Scala or Munich's 500-seat Cuvillies Theater, and with no money to build one, the plan lay gathering dust until last spring, when Bing's successor, Göran Gentele, took it up. Gentele's plan to use the Juilliard School...