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Bent on becoming a ranking European ski star, Karim Ago Khan, 24, scored a diplomatic sitzmark while working out with the Austrian national squad near Salzburg. Racing down a slalom run, the generally sobersided Karim veered off the marked course and bowled over an Austrian photographer who had chosen to ignore the Aga's refusal to permit pictures. When the collision was untangled, the victim took his mangled Minolta and gashed ski boot to the local police station, charging reckless skiing. But before a damage suit could be prosecuted, the spiritual leader of 20 million Ismali Moslems lammed...
Ivan Illich, 35, was born in Vienna; his mother was a Spanish Jew and his father was a Yugoslav Roman Catholic. He took a Ph.D. in history at Salzburg when he was 24, studied theology at Rome's Pontifical Gregorian University, and was ordained to the priesthood in 1951. He came to New York City, became interested in Puerto Ricans...
Most singers would be happy to make a career out of the engagements that the pair has since turned down: Evelyn, for instance, has bypassed invitations from the Salzburg, Glyndebourne and Spoleto festivals. Heavily in demand for knotty contemporary scores, they have been especially careful to avoid being stereotyped in what Evelyn once called "this modrun crap." have studiously built up a repertory of classical roles...
Schuman immediately enrolled in a music school, later went off to study at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, eventually worked under Contemporary Composer Roy Harris. At the age of 34, Schuman, still a veritable novice, was appointed head of staid old Juilliard. Said an apprehensive trustee: "This will either be the greatest thing that ever happened to Juilliard or the most colossal error of our collective lives...
...congratulate her she said grimly: "You realize that my work has only just begun." Wherever the work takes her, she knows that from time to time she must go home to Laurel again: it is the place where she feels she can be "just Leontyne." After the triumphs at Salzburg and Milan, she recalls, she made a flying visit and encountered a deacon of St. Paul's Methodist Church walking up South Fifth Avenue. "Hi, Leontyne," said the deacon. "Still singin...