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...home, some promising Americans have packed their scores and set off for Europe. Dennis Russell Davies, 38, won praise as the leader of the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra but left in 1980 to direct the Stuttgart Opera in Germany. James Conlon, 32, recently was named music director of the Rotterdam Philharmonic-succeeding Zinman, who spent much of his early career in The Netherlands. Michael Tilson Thomas, 37, after an eight-year stint as the Buffalo Philharmonic's music director, now spends his time guest conducting both here and abroad. Perhaps the most successful of all the young Americans...
...that the dollar will fall back to the depths reached in late 1979. International experts generally believe that the U.S. is finally confronting its inflation problems, and they are betting that this will mean a stronger dollar in the future. Says Joop van Kessel, an economist at the Amsterdam-Rotterdam Bank: "There is a general feeling that things are working for the best in the U.S. That confidence has a lot to do with Reagan's cowboy image and strong personality." Even European government officials, who have been battling to bolster their currencies, give Reagan a grudging nod. Italian...
...strategic") weapons, probably around 1970, and now that it may have lost even parity, the message is more clouded. Europeans increasingly doubt that any man in the Oval Office, in the face of some Soviet diplomatic-military blackmail move, would really risk all of the urban U.S. "to save Rotterdam." (For some reason Rotterdam has become the preferred metaphor, perhaps because Dutch attitudes toward NATO are so spongy.) Recent U.S. Presidents have declined, as they must, to relieve Soviet uncertainties on this point. Henry Kissinger, out of office, felt free to say in Brussels in 1979 that "it is absurd...
When it comes to flying high, few businessmen can measure up to Frans Swarttouw, 49, of The Netherlands. Having built Rotterdam's containership terminal into a key operation of the world's biggest and busiest deepwater port, Swarttouw took command three years ago of Holland's weak and floundering Fokker aircraft company and promptly set about developing a strategy to propel it into the front ranks of the world's airframe manufacturers...
...begun inching up for such high-value petroleum products as diesel fuel, naphtha and heating oil. The increase is slower than the breakneck pace that characterized the pay-any-price panic of 1979, when the spot cost of crude oil shot up from $13 to $40 per bbl. In Rotterdam, hub of Europe's volatile crude-oil spot market, small cargoes last week were selling for anywhere from $4 to $5 per bbl. above the long-term average rate of approximately $32 per bbl. that the 13-nation OPEC cartel is now charging...