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...Prioress. Maria Ewing in the lead and Betsy Norden as Sister Constance both shine with youth and youthful voices. The Met in Boston reports that Carmelites isn't selling well, so it's probably your best chance to get decent seats at this late hour.Above left, Otto Schenk's naturalistic staging of the Pilgrim's Chorus from Act I of "Tannhauser." Below right, BEVERLY SILLS in "Don Pasquale." Below, TERESA STRATAS in "The Bartered Bride." Opposite page, from top to bottom: RICHARD CASSILLY as Tannhauser, JON VICKERS as Otello, and SHERRILL MILNES as Iago...
...numbers on oil industry balance sheets are always bogglingly big. In 1978, according to Data Resources Inc., the research firm headed by Democratic Economist Otto Eckstein, the revenues of U.S. domestic and international oil firms totaled a staggering $346 billion; the after-tax profits totaled $15.6 billion, which was more than three times the earnings of all U.S. auto manufacturers. Still, by any yardstick, oil company profits are not out of line with those in other U.S. industries...
...Otto Eckstein, Warburg Professor of Economics, said 'yesterday, "No doubt MIT has a more appealing graduate program, but Harvard's is on the road to reconstruction...
...seen so much unction since the halcyon days of Huey Long. There was smiling Tongsun Park signing autographs and granting interviews. He acted more like a Cajun politician than a disgraced influence peddler turned Government witness in the $213,000 bribery −tax evasion trial of former formidable Congressman Otto Passman, his old friend, in Passman's home town. Park even accepted an invitation to talk to 50 high school journalism students. Samples of their Q. and A.: How did he like Cajun food? Great, especially gumbo and rice. How were morals among young South Koreans? High, since girls...
Trying to win prestige for his network, Paley even laid siege to the Metropolitan Opera, whose president and chairman, Financier Otto Kahn, was outraged that anyone would want to hear a mezzo-soprano through the static of the air waves. At last Paley persuaded him to come to his office and hear a performance he had piped in. "We heard the overture," he relates, "and several minutes of singing into the first act and still no one reacted. Then Kahn leaped to his feet and exclaimed: 'I can't believe it. It's simply marvelous . . . and just...