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...ALAN M. RICHTER...
...quake lasted for one full minute across an area of 130,000 square miles. At its most severe, it registered 7.5 on the Richter scale (v. 8.5 for the 1960 quake), and for two hours it set seismographs squiggling as far away as central Italy, 7,500 miles to the east. Reports from Santiago told of 200 houses heavily damaged; amazingly, only four people were dead and ten injured. In Valparaiso, Chile's major seaport, close to 30% of the buildings were damaged with 15 persons killed. Throughout the central part of the country, water mains burst, buildings collapsed...
BISMARCK by Werner Richter. 420 pages. Putnam...
Bismarck was quite a bit of both but, above all, a much misjudged figure, argues Werner Richter, a German biographer who has written books on everyone from Ludwig II to Abraham Lincoln. Instead of painting Bismarck black or white-Prussia's royal colors-Richter sees him as an eminently human creature given to occasional flirtation, frequent psychosomatic ailments, fits of weeping, and almost constant self-doubt. For 30 years, the man who first said that "politics is the art of the possible" manipulated the events of a continent simply because he knew how to manipulate people. The Iron Chancellor...
BEETHOVEN: SONATAS FOR PIANO AND CELLO (2 LPs; Philips). Beethoven gave both the pianist and cellist a good deal to say in his sonatas, which makes the pairing of these artists a special delight. Sviatoslav Richter, 50, and Mstislav Rostropovich, 37, have been playing chamber music together for years, and each knows when to follow the other's moods and when to talk back...