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Today, 50 million Italians spend much of their lives filling out official forms. Permission in triplicate (as a minimum) is required for practically anything: installing electricity in one's house in Rome, 21 different applications; exporting textiles, 200. One Rome resident reported that getting auto license plates took him four months, 71 phone calls, 18 documents, six tax stamps, and visits to 13 different offices. To fight the current building slump, Parliament authorized $2 billion in public works last fall. Virtually none of the money has been spent because it is so difficult to get approval of specific projects...
...achievement. A man of passionate convictions who "would rather starve" than give an imperfect performance, Celibidache has become an artist in self-imposed exile. While other guest conductors accept three rehearsals as sufficient preparation for a concert, Celibidache demands at least ten. He has been known, for example, to spend six rehearsals perfecting Webern's Variations for Orchestra, a work that lasts less than six minutes. The musicians who have worked under him agree that the result is worth all the painstaking labor. Says Cellist Gregor Piatigorsky, recalling a performance at La Scala: "His accompaniment was unforgettable. I played...
...Walter considered whether this move may mean a change in the principles on which he acts? I doubt it. Again it is typical of the new radicals that they do not spend much time worrying about their philosophical principles or historical lineage. Yet at some future point, when the activism of the movement has either died or been turned over to younger people, the elders will begin to think about their position. Then perhaps Walter will notice what some of the more bookish radicals have undoubtedly noticed already: the incredible parallels between the current radical situation and the experience...
When Americans spend more abroad than foreigners spend here, the U.S. suffers a balance of payments deficit, dollars flow out of this country and other central banks begin demanding gold in exchange for their currency. The gold stock declines. People begin to doubt that the U.S. will always have enough gold to maintain the present rate of exchange. And a run on the dollar, precipitated by the fear of devaluation would cause a major world crisis by undermining the value of the dollars which central banks use as reserve assets...
...found U.S. officials, both military and civilian, closemouthed and uncooperative; when information has been given out, it has often been wrong. When reporters have taken to the streets for their stories, they have been shot at by snipers, have hitched rides with hysterical drivers while bullets whizzed past. They spend much of their time helping the wounded to hospitals...