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After returning to Austria last week to resume meetings with GM's European board of advisers, Smith discussed his corporate strategy in an interview with TIME Correspondent William McWhirter in Salzburg. Said Smith: "The U.S. is going through the largest technological revolution in its history, and we're going to be standing right in the middle of it. Our game plan was to have E.D.S., Hughes and GM as the natural base for both growth and diversity. We are now being viewed as a high-tech company, not a medium-tech, mass- production...
THIS LESSON was brought home to me five years ago when I was in Austria. Salzburg is both the Mozart and the precipitation capital of Europe: you'll see more umbrella shops on one street in Salzburg than in all of London. One afternoon it was raining katzen undhunde, so I bought myself a nice dark gray umbrella, only to attract some strange commands from passing natives. An English-speaking Austrian finally told me that I had bought a woman's umbrella. Since I couldn't tell the difference between the one he was carrying...
Although the indigenous population the area is only 7 million (including 16,000 ski instructors), some 40 million vacationers have trooped through the mountains each year since 1980. An additional 60 million day trippers from such nearby cities as Munich, Salzburg and Milan have motored through the passes and hiked through the high pasturelands annually. The Alps, once an almost insurmountable barrier between north and south, are now crossed by some 50 airlines, seven rail services and 30 major highways...
After the concert in New York, the New Orchestra will spend a month at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria this summer, said Epstein. He called Salzburg "the musical Capital of Europe in the summer," and said that the Mozarten is the most prestigious music school in Europe...
...pressed him to take the No. 2 job at the State Department to help smooth rocky relations between Haig and the White House staff, Clark came to Washington. His confirmation hearing was a debacle. As background in foreign affairs he listed his work as a young lawyer for a Salzburg ski-binding company, his wife's Czech origins and the education of his children in Germany. At one point, when Democratic Senator John Glenn asked for his views on official recognition of Taiwan, the Judge answered, "I think it could be very dangerous for me to have a personal...