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GEORGE FREDERICK HANDEL was a prodigal master, an adaptive musical fountainhead who composed vast quantities of epic choral dramas, superb operas, incidental and instrumental works. His creative fertility was so prodigious that his 97 volumes of autographs exceed the combined complete works of Bach and Beethoven. Although a contemporary of Corelli, Vivaldi, Scarlatti, and Telemann. Handel beggared their combined achievements with his limitless genius. Yet while the scope of Bach, Handel's only contemporary equal, is now fully grasped, the boundless wealth of Handel has been reduced to one or two operatic arias, a couple of organ concertos, the Water...
...each sales dollar. It put tooling costs at $134 per car, for styling and other changes. The figures were aimed at refuting charges by Auto Critic Ralph Nader, who in July asserted that "the direct and indirect labor in a medium-priced car doesn't exceed $300." He claimed that styling costs account for "at least $700" of the price of a new auto...
...unprecedented joint assault by the government's two largest industrial complexes, ENI and I.R.I., which between them have substantial interests in 275 firms and control all or most of Italy's steel, oil, shipbuilding, aviation and banking. The government's new stake in "Montedison," whose sales exceed $2 billion, puts it in command of about one-fourth of Italian industry...
...York Stock Exchange was not the only exchange to exceed itself last week. In Japan, on the football-field-sized trading floor of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, prices rose until they surpassed their previous peak, set on July 18, 1961. Japan's Dow Jones average -calculated in roughly the same way as the American Dow-Jones but otherwise unrelated - closed for the day at 1,839 yen ($5.09), ten points above the seven-year-old record...
...soap-opera actor who revitalized J. Walter's television department, to become president. Now Seymour takes full charge of a shop that, thanks to Strouse, is not about to lose its No. 1 ranking. Billings have more than doubled since Strouse was named president in 1955, and currently exceed $600 million. With blue-chip clients that include Eastman Kodak, Ford, Pan Am, Standard Brands and Liggett & Myers, J. Walter Thompson is also busily building sales for about 800 smaller companies in the U.S. and 27 other nations...