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...levels for the next five years. To take Smith's place, President Nixon last week named Fred C. Iklé (pronounced ee-CLAY), 48, the author of three books on nuclear strategy and for the past six years head of the Rand Corporation's social science department. Swiss-born, Iklé emigrated to the U.S. in 1946, got his Ph.D. in sociology at the University of Chicago, and later taught political science at M.I.T...
...long time, and her people come across as flat and flimsy (one questions, analytical cliche though it may be, if her parents were ever young themselves), it is because she presents her story as a kind of Kafkaesque report. This report is compiled by Dr. Berners a Swiss-born plastic surgeon in search of his drop-out son, to "us," the audience outside his mental amphitheater, where he performs imaginary operations on various members of the human race. Apart from his obsessive need to "reexamine all human action as animal" for his audience. Berners is attempting to justify himself before...
Died. Fritz Glarner, 73, Swiss-born artist whose "relational painting" derived from the style of Piet Mondrian; of a stroke; in Locarno, Switzerland. A disciple of Mondrian in Paris during the '20s, Glarner moved to the U.S. in 1936 and set about developing his own identity as a painter and muralist. Though he retained the stark primary colors used by his mentor, Glarner skewed the Mondrian rectangles in an attempt to make his work seem less static. He spent three decades in the U.S., then returned to Switzerland six years ago after being critically injured on the liner Michelangelo...
...most daring scrutinizers is Father Hans Kűng, 43, a Swiss-born professor of theology at Tubingen University in West Germany. An acid-penned theological nonconformist, Kűng does more than re-examine the doctrine; he is the first important Catholic theologian to come right out and deny it. The Vatican is understandably unhappy, and for two months the sounds of its displeasure have thundered around Kűng's head; he has been under attack from the hierarchies of Germany, Italy and France. This week, with the American publication of his blunt book Infallible? An Inquiry...
Died. Paul Boepple, 74, one of the nation's leading choral directors; of pneumonia; in Brattleboro, Vt. As director of the Dessoff Choirs from 1936 until his retirement in 1968, the Swiss-born Boepple was instrumental in expanding American amateur choral singing beyond the traditional repertory, introducing the works of Contemporary Composers Frank Martin and Arthur Honegger, and reviving such once-neglected oratorios as Handel's Israel in Egypt...