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...Watcher in the Shadows, Household...
Senator Kennedy's platform is a far more subtle, and far more interesting document. Inevitably, it contains the dreary platitudes, the extravagant promises, and the baseless accusations at the opposition that the tolerant convention watcher has learned to expect. It reflects at the same time something of which many of the delegates to Los Angeles may not entirely have been aware: the genuine dissatisfaction of their party's intellectuals with the torpor in their society...
...WATCHER IN THE SHADOWS, by Geoffrey Household (248 pp.; Atlantic-Little, Brown; $3.95), is one of those controlled British exercises in suspense in which the imminence of death seems as natural as the call of a thrush. An old manhunt expert, Author Household (Rogue Male, A Rough Shoot) this time offers a killer who stalks a zoologist, an Austrian antiNazi who served as a British agent in World War II. The zoologist lives as a contented, fortyish bachelor in a London suburb, but unfortunately for his bucolic peace of mind, he has spent some time in Buchenwald as a British...
Allegiance to the Theatergoer. A reporter at heart, he has always felt a stronger allegiance to the theatergoer than to the theater. A man of many interests, he has published seven books, mostly collections of casual, contemplative essays, is a chronic bird watcher and boat watcher, a part-time farmer (he owns 153 acres in Durham, N.Y.), and an amateur woodworker. When World War II broke out, he insisted that the Times send him abroad as a correspondent, spent two years in China, followed that up with a ten-month reportorial stint in Moscow that won him a Pulitzer Prize...
Glaring in the darkness like some colossal firework, a 98-ft. rocket blasted off a launching pad at Cape Canaveral, Fla. one night last week. As it zoomed skyward, trailing a gaudy glow of reds and greens, a watcher in the Canaveral blockhouse gasped out an awed, unscientific tribute: "Isn't she beautiful...