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...Nancy Bohm...
...unusually intense musical politics that have made Vienna the bane of conductors. So great is the municipal love of music that even the orchestra members, drawn from the Vienna Philharmonic, can be merciless to leaders they do not respect. In this century alone, three illustrious predecessors-Gustav Mahler, Karl Bohm and Herbert von Karajan-all threw down batons and left in their huffs before their contracts were due to expire...
Richard Strauss: Salome (Soprano Hildegard Behrens, Mezzo Agnes Baltsa, Tenor Karl-Walter Bohm, Baritone Jose Van Dam, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan conductor, Angel; 2 LPs). With Karajan, the orchestral music comes first, even in opera. Here he conducts a vibrant, sensuous performance of Strauss's lurid opera. Behrens as Salome may lack the cruel edge of Birgit Nilsson's performance on London. But Behrens' pure voice contrasts chillingly with Salome's lust, while Van Dam's ringing Jochanaan is a saintly counterpoint in a savage world...
...laissez-faire, free-market economics. There are no laissez-fairists, no true capitalists (though plenty of state-capitalists), no "Austrians," no libertarians, no free-maketeers of any variety in the Harvard economics department. The last to be here, to our knowledge, was a disciple of the Austrian school (Menger, Bohm-Bawerk, Mises) who left three years...
Fast Footwork. The natty Vesco has already earned a reputation for fast financial footwork. The Detroit-born son of an autoworker, he left school at 17, learned management techniques on the job at Packard, Bohm Aluminum and Reynolds Metals. He went into business on his own at 24, arranging contracts and financing for deals to buy and sell small companies; sometimes he accepted stock as a fee. Partly through this method, Vesco in 1965 combined two tiny valve and control manufacturers to form International Controls, with 20 employees and sales...