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...work, Strehler is a one-man lesson in the arts of persuasion. Divas and leading ladies alike find him enormously difficult to refuse-on stage and off. Vibrant and eloquent, a handsome bachelor (he was divorced some years ago) who has a crown of wavy silver hair, Strehler is a familiar figure in Italian gossip magazines because of his stormy love affairs. Not that he has all that much time to himself. Last week, while La Scala and the Paris Opéra were proudly introducing his work to U.S. audiences, Strehler was in Paris rehearsing Chekhov...
...international respectability has embittered and demoralized the West Berliners who remain stranded 110 miles from the nearest Western border, and who are exposed daily to Communist pressures that sporadically explode into major incidents. Although kept alive by massive infusions of money from Bonn, West Berlin is languishing. Once a vibrant citadel, it has acquired a glum and shabby look. Even the famous Kurfurstendamm has only about six blocks of tourist-attracting brightness, and the rest looks run down and dreary...
...features on travel and sports. But fire fighting will remain the heart of the magazine. Says Smith: "The writing has gotta be laconic, emotional, exciting. I like to see fire fighters in every story and know what they feel and think." The color photographs and art work will be vibrant with reds, yellows and burnt oranges because Smith wants "a reader to feel his adrenaline flowing when he picks up the magazine, just like a fire fighter does when he's putting out the flames...
...Loewe. Although Hillis is also music director of the nearby Elgin Symphony Orchestra, she might be called an unsung heroine: her principal job is to ready her chorus for other maestros. She founded her group 19 years ago at Fritz Reiner's invitation. Today the Hillis sound-vibrant, precise, enormous-has become an indispensable element of the famed Solti sound, notably at events like Sir Georg's luminous concert version of Wagner's The Flying Dutchman. Says Solti: "Working with her and that chorus is one of the major joys of my life...
Exulted Democratic National Committee Chairman Robert Strauss: "The state of our party is very good?organized, vibrant, forward-looking and hell-bent on victory." Said Douglas Fraser, a liberal United Auto Workers vice president who originally backed Morris Udall for the nomination: "It's a thirst for victory that we have, and we don't want to put that possibility in jeopardy." Added Daley: "We've been fighting too long and losing too long. Now we've got a great candidate...