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...twice, and South Africa's Prime Minister lay on the concrete aisle, blood spurting from two holes in his cheek and ear. His wife flung her arms around him, crying "What's happened? What's happened?" Then she fainted. Verwoerd's personal bodyguard, Major Carl Richter. was a few feet away when, belatedly, he realized what had happened and fainted...
...WATERS OF KRONOS (176 pp.)-Conrad Richter-Knopf...
...some critics like to believe, and few books seem truer to life than those in which the author indulges his nostalgia. Writers as various as Marcel Proust, Thomas Wolfe and James Thurber separately discovered that "you can't go home again." In The Waters of Kronos, Novelist Conrad Richter adds an extra dimension to this truism. His hero grasps what countless other men have sensed: you can never really leave home. Novelist Richter has written a dozen books (The Trees, The Fields, The Town) in which the American grain stands out like a pledge of authenticity. His latest...
...worship that was once reserved for the touchdown-happy backs. In Detroit, Joe Schmidt can do nothing wrong, although his Lions (2-6-1) can do nothing right. In San Francisco, small boys speak in awe of the thundering tackles of Jerry Tubbs. At a banquet in California, Les Richter of the Los Angeles Rams diagramed defenses for a solid hour and enthralled U.C.L.A. Physicist Joseph Kaplan, chairman of the U.S. International Geophysical Year Committee...
...Pianist Richter-Haaser's postwar reputation spread rapidly; he has played with virtually every major European orchestra, been hailed as the successor to such German greats as Gieseking and Backhaus. Says Richter-Haaser ruefully: "I do not go on stage to play wrong notes. But the important thing is the idea. The piano must not be like a machine...