Word: successors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ormandy's hand-picked successor as music director will have an equally short season. Riccardo Muti, 38, will divide his time between Philadelphia and other posts in London and Florence, a trend among the newer generation of conductors that Ormandy laments. "These jet-set conductors, they jump from one place to another," he says. "At the end, they don't have their own children, their musical children. I belong to the school where you are married to only one orchestra and you live with it 24 hours...
There remains the possibility that Carter and Sadat soon will be dealing not with Begin but with a successor. Begin's popularity is slipping badly in Israel, both because of domestic concerns (the primary one is triple-digit inflation) and because of his stand on the peace negotiations. Polls last week found that only 21% of the Israelis queried think he is the best man for the job, though no one else tops that figure. Moreover, Defense Minister Ezer Weizman, whose popularity is second to Begin's in the government, asserted in a bombshell interview on Israeli...
...university system, he permitted its annual budget to grow from $240 million to $509 million in eight years. He approved a 190% increase in state support of California's public colleges and hiked state aid to local schools by 119%. Many California educators now rate Reagan's successor, Jerry Brown, as more tightfisted and tougher to deal with than Reagan...
...such as the Chevrolet Citation and the Buick Skylark, are helping the company maintain its market share. This fall GM will introduce shrunken or downsize intermediate cars like the Chevrolet Monte Carlo and Buick Regal. Its J car is due in April 1981, and will be a sporty subcompact successor to such models as the Chevy Monza...
HANOVER, N.H.--Dartmouth College President John G. Kemeny announced Monday that he will resign August 1, 1981, or earlier if a successor is found before that date...