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...Islands. Opened in 1948 by U.S. Millionaire Robertson Ward, the club sprawls over 1.300 landscaped acres, has twelve sandy beaches, an 18-hole golf course. Membership (now closed) is rigidly screened to guarantee that openings do not go to just any old millionaire. Sixty-six members (among them: Francis du Pont) own winter homes on club property. With annual expenditures of $500,000. the club is impoverished Antigua's biggest single source of income...
...apparent to Leinsdorf that Symonette "could not get any music out of his throat." When Symonette finally croaked out the line "Aus meinem Angesicht bist du verbannt" ("From my presence you are banished"), Leinsdorf ordered the curtain rung down...
...omens were less favorable. In Elisabethville, Tshombe rose before his provincial assembly to hedge his promises, still holding out for as much autonomy for Katanga as he could wangle. On Washington's orders, more pressure on Tshombe was applied in Brussels, administrative headquarters of the rich Union Miniere du Haut Katanga, which provides Tshombe with most of his revenue. Said a State Department official: "We hope to work something out." By now, Moscow was getting back into the act. When U.S. Air Force planes flew live cattle, food and engineering equipment to help towns along a flooded stretch...
Pursuit of Perfection. Arturo Toscanini first proclaimed I Musici "Number One" when the orchestra was founded in Rome nine years ago, and I Musici has held on to the title ever since. Repeated winners of France's cherished Grand Prix du Disque, I Musici has made 34 records, sold a phenomenal 300,000 copies. Its best seller: Vivaldi's Four Seasons. In its pursuit of perfection, the group takes four full days to record a 4O-min. LP. The result is a luxurious, butter-smooth string tone, an artful blending of the orchestra's twelve instruments...
...applicants answering a want ad. Assigned to rebuild the chemical complex after the war, he defied stockholder opposition by multiplying the outstanding shares in order to obtain new capital. Now, with sales of $600 million a year, Montecatini slugs it out internationally with the likes of Du Pont and Britain's Imperial Chemical Industries, and in the Italian market has a reputation for slashing prices until a rival is forced to give up the fight...