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...before him, he painted a world that was half real and half dream, but always supercharged with emotion. Violet waves of rubble might in one canvas wash up upon some imaginary shore in the heart of the city; in another canvas a lone fisherman rows slowly down the River Spree as scores of dark windows stare blankly out of vacant interiors. In Heldt's final canvases, the city itself broke up into childlike chunks of color that teetered and lurched crazily against one another. The color was bright but shadowless, and the streets were eerily still...
Much of the violence was clearly a summer's-end, preschool spree. And in Manhattan-where nine policemen were hurt attempting to control the crowd that turned out for an annual West Indies Day parade in Harlem-the nerve-shreddingly humid heat was mostly to blame for trouble. But not all the rebellion could be explained away by back-to-books excesses or hot weather. The U.S. juvenile delinquency rate was up 6% last year over 1959, has more than doubled over the last twelve years. In Houston, where there has been little juvenile delinquency in recent years, police...
Japan's businessmen are expanding their plants at an unprecedented rate, largely with imported heavy machinery. And as the benefits of the resulting superboom trickle down, Japan's consumers have gone on an epic spending spree, snapping up in ever increasing quantities everything from electric rice cookers to autos. In response, many Japanese manufacturers who used to produce for export are now producing for the domestic market...
...There was still a trickle of refugees sneaking out to the West. One mason who was at work on the wall itself leapfrogged over the cement blocks and fled into West Berlin when his day's labor was done. Less fortunate was the man who jumped into a Spree River inlet near the old Reichstag and tried to swim the 100 yards to safety; border guards riddled him with bullets before he got halfway across...
...text adapted from Helga Mauersberger, pictures by Klaus Winter and Helmut Bischoff; Franklin Watts; $3.95) rollicks through the cycle of the seasons in an anthropocentric spree. Miss Sunshine is the high-powered female producer of the solar show. Her problem actor is Cousin Rain, a climatological cut-up who releases Mr. Thunder and Mr. Lightning from their padlocked castle. Miss Sunshine's loyal ally is Mr. Rainbow, the official scene painter who slips about, brush in hand, to give beetle, butterfly and snail shell the appropriate hue of the season. The pixyish, Chagall-accented illustrations set the special tone...