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...Then there's this kid Belson. He's just 27, but we think he'll go a long way." As for defense lawyers, the buffs' favorite by far is F. Lee Bailey. "When he sums up, he doesn't even have notes," says Louis Richter, 67, a retired clerk for American Express. "He does it all from his head. Oh, he's good. He's the best there...
Lucky Timing. It was not even the ultimate earthquake that scientists have long predicted for California (see SCIENCE). But it registered 6.5 on the Richter Scale (highest ever recorded: 8.9), making it the most severe shock to strike the quake-prone area in nearly 40 years. Felt over 30,000 square miles from Fresno south to San Diego and east to Las Vegas, the earthquake caused at least $350 million worth of property damage. It killed 62 persons, the greatest number of U.S. earthquake casualties since Long Beach suffered 120 deaths in 1933. Only the fortunate timing prevented a fatality...
Casals played for two American Presidents (Theodore Roosevelt in 1904, John F. Kennedy in 1961) and for British monarchs starting with Queen Victoria in 1899. He knew Debussy, Rimsky-Korsakov and Conductor Hans Richter, who had been a friend of Wagner. His book is stuffed with tales of great music makers at their most unbuckled moments. He tells how his friend Violinist Pablo Sarasate used to complain of insomnia because, he claimed, his room was full of turtles. Tiring of this fiction, Sarasate's friends filled the great virtuoso's quarters with real turtles. Sarasate contemplated the creatures...
Levy is this the heir to the avant-garde of Ray, Richter. Duchamp, and Dali, and also the most sophisticated of Eisenstein's psychology and his montage of shack therapy. Indeed Levy's ??? on film are built around similar percept?? ??? (though in his case, with a Phl). in theoretical physics from Cambridge, the science is a good ??? more ??? fide) and his recourse to similar language ("emotional shocks." for instance ??? predominantly in his theory...
...million Chinese obeyed a command to jump from 6½-ft. platforms, they could constitute a "geophysical weapon." How? Assuming that the average Chinese weighs 110 lbs., he calculates, the energy released by this great leap downward would be equivalent to an earthquake of magnitude 4.5 on the Richter scale, causing extensive damage in China. But if the Chinese were organized to jump roughly every 54 minutes-just when the peak of a barely perceptible natural ripple that continually sweeps around the earth's surface passes through China-they might set up a world-girdling resonant ground wave that...