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When Gustav Mahler stepped down from the podium one evening in 1895 after conducting the first full performance of his Second Symphony, the Berlin audience was hostile, and the critics fumed about "the cynical impudence of this brutal music maker." The response was characteristic of most Mahler premières. Venerated by a handful of his fellow musicians, Mahler was misunderstood by his public and despised as a martinet by the singers and players who performed under his baton. Now, in the centennial year of his birth, the musical world is taking a fresh look at the last...
Britain's ailing aircraft makers believe that misery loves a new company. Last week Vickers-Armstrongs, maker of the turboprop Viscount and Vanguard, and English Electric Co., R.A.F. fighter-plane builder, sped up their longstanding merger talks. They also began courting Bristol Aircraft, maker of the turboprop Britannia. They feel they will need a big combine to compete against the Hawker-Siddeley Group and de Havilland Aircraft Co., which last month announced plans to merge. If stockholders approve, Hawker-Siddeley and de Havilland will become the biggest aircraft company in the Commonwealth (combined assets: $250 million...
Even with the mergers, the British aviation industry has a long way to go before it settles down to the two or three major units that Minister Sandys hopes for. Still unspoken for are Fairey Aviation Co., Rotodyne aircraft developer; Handley Page, an R.A.F. jet bomber maker; and such firms as Hunting Aircraft, Short Bros. & Harland, and Westland Aircraft, Britain's leading helicopter maker. But with a dwindling market for military aircraft (less than 50% of industry sales last year v. 65% in 1956) plus U.S. dominance in long-range jetliners, amalgamation appears to be an economic must...