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...PETER SHAFFER...
...Equus, it is the Old Adam and night, and six horses are wheeling in terror. They have been blinded by a 17-year-old boy wielding a metal spike. Spurred by this lacerating image, Peter Shaffer has fashioned a galvanizing psychological thriller...
...firmly believe that the place to stop hijackers is at the aircraft's boarding gate," said FAA Director John H. Shaffer. So did most people, apparently, for there were no significant protests when 007-like X-ray and metal detection gadgets appeared in airports in February 1973. Americans generally considered, and still consider, such blanket security to be a small price to pay for an end to hijackings...
...days later, John Dean came before Judge John Sirica to be sentenced for the single count of conspiracy hi the Watergate cover-up that he pleaded guilty to last October. Accompanied by his attorney, Charles Shaffer, and Shaffer's wife Susan (Maureen Dean was at home in Los Angeles), Dean placed himself at the mercy of the court: "The only thing I would ask for is your compassion and understanding. I realize to say I am sorry is not enough." After denying Shaffer's request to postpone sentencing until the newly released Watergate tapes could shed more light...
Copland: Appalachian Spring (original version, Columbia Chamber Orchestra, the composer conducting; Columbia, $5.98); Copland: Sonata for Violin and Piano, Duo for Flute and Piano, Nonet for Strings (Columbia, $5.98). Partnering Violinist Isaac Stern in the Sonata (1943), or the late Elaine Shaffer in the Duo (1971), Copland proves himself a splendid interpreter of two of his most wistfully introspective chamber works...