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...Afrikaner Broederbond, in turn, is run by an executive of twelve who call themselves the Twelve Apostles. One of the apostles, billiard-bald Dr. Nicholaas Diederichs, Nationalist Parliament member for Randfontein, said in his maiden speech in Parliament: "The political position in South Africa is not an ordinary fight between two parties, but between two basic outlooks on life so fundamentally divided that a compromise between them is virtually unthinkable...
Died. Marshal Pavel Semyonovich Rybalko, fortyish, billiard-bald commander in chief of Soviet armored, tank and mechanized troops, who led his tank army into a spectacular breakthrough on the Ukrainian front in December 1943; after long illness; in Moscow...
...Boston Public Latin School's Joseph Lawrence Powers, 69, slight, billiard-playing headmaster of the oldest-and possibly the best-U.S. public school (founded 1635). A strict disciplinarian (in his best this-hurts-me-worse tone, he used to ask erring pupils, "Why didn't you give me a break so I could give you a break?"), Powers is an old Latin School student himself, has been on the faculty since 1906. The Powers prescription for scholastic success: hard work on a classical curriculum with a minimum of electives and no frilly courses...
...elliptical billiard balls...
...electric force in Van Gogh's art was sheer color. Describing his famed Night Café-in which a green billiard table squats like a beast under the bright yellow lights of a red room-he could say without the least self-consciousness: "I have tried to express the terrible passions of humanity by means of red and green." When he was very ill, he sent his brother a self-portrait head which seems to burn like an electric bulb, with nerves for filaments. "You must look at it for some time," he wrote. "You will see, I hope...