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...proposed. Many politicos believe it would be political suicide, would raise the old cry of a plot to "soak the poor." But a sales tax may not be so explosive an issue as politicians think. For one thing, 31 states and even a few cities, e.g., New York and Baton Rouge, already have them. Britain has had sales taxes for years, and Canada gets 16% of its revenue from such...
Missing from the podium this year was veteran Conductor Hans Knappertsbusch, 65, last of the great Wagner traditionalists, a casualty of the grandsons' innovations. He was in the middle of a rehearsal last spring when he suddenly put down his baton and folded his hands. Wieland Wagner, who had already lost temperamental Conductor Herbert von Karajan over artistic disagreements, begged him to explain what he wanted. "I wish," replied Knappertsbusch, "that you would put back into this opera what your grandfather put into it and what you have taken out." The quarrel was never patched...
...Voice. "Freedom, it seems to me. lies not so much in objectivity, which is largely beyond human realization, as in variety . . . Those who appear regularly [on] BBC . . . must be prepared to blow their trumpets or sound their cymbals or scratch their violins in accordance with the Corporation's baton . . . Whether the music is good or bad, there is one orchestra with one conductor, following one score, and this state of affairs ... is both unhealthy and dangerous...
...Santander stationmaster, Argenta, 39, made a living as a coffeehouse pianist for a while, then studied in Germany before taking over the Madrid radio orchestra in 1946. There he did so well (80 concerts in one year) that the bid to the National Orchestra followed quickly. Under his baton, the National has become a polished instrument, despite the fact that it has no hall and that its men live on a meager $30 a month, plus an allowance for a new suit of tails every two years...
Lately, under Dr. Jo's directorship, visitors have been welcomed at Carville (only children under twelve are barred), and the hospital has a team in a Baton Rouge softball league. Most important for the patients, they now know that most of them will go home...