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Misplaced Aria. What few realized was the extent of Landon's "a la Haydn" restoration: fully one-third of the opera was pure Landon. So skillful was the reweaving job that even Director Werner Duggelin and Conductor Alberto Erede were taken in. Questioned about the major aria, "Quanti diversi sentimenti nel cuor!" (How many emotions are in my breast!) in the second act, Duggelin unhesitatingly replied: "Oh, that is Haydn, beyond any doubt. Of course, I know Landon did a job of restoration. But as a professional, one knows what and where, of course." Echoed Erede: "That is Haydn...
...full foreign value" of merchandise bought abroad. Tourists ordinarily know but one foreign value?the price they paid?and almost invariably set down and pay duty on the retail price. Yet the law defines the full foreign value as "the market value or the price . . . in the usual wholesale quanti- ties." Every businessman knows that the average retail price is about 50% greater than the wholesale price, yet tourists commonly pay duty on the former...
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