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...recent books in the category, Journalist-Novelist Marya Mannes has explored what may prove to be the most popular approach to death: treating it as a new civil rights issue. More than 40 years ago, Austrian Novelist and Playwright Stefan Zweig wrote: "Among the 'rights of man' there is a right which no one can take away, the right to croak when and where one pleases." This bald manifesto might serve as the banner that Miss Mannes marches under...
...Igor Kipnis, Vol. 2 (Columbia; 3 LPs; $9.98). Having surrendered America's finest harpsichordist to Angel two years ago, Columbia continues to reissue the superlative albums he originally taped for the now defunct Epic classical label. Included here are choice anthologies of English, German and Austrian music (late 16th century to the 18th) for clavichord as well as harpsichord. Meanwhile, Kipnis, 43-year-old son of the great Russian basso Alexander, moves on. His Goldbergs boast boldly colored registrations, an entertaining songfulness, and a wondrous knack for making Baroque embellishments sound inevitable...
...noncommissioned officers. About ten miles north of Suez, a truck with cartons of food and cigarettes had arrived at U.N. observation post Kilo-a collection of whitewashed shacks on the edge of the canal. There we talked with Vienna-born Joseph Nekhan, 27, a first lieutenant in an Austrian tank battalion who had been seconded to the U.N. Emergency Force. Below him, Egyptian soldiers in beige work clothes carried cartons from the trucks to a makeshift wharf. Israeli officers spot-checked the boxes for contraband by occasionally ripping open a package of sweets or a carton of cigarettes. The Egyptians...
...Castle in Vienna became a symbol in the Arab-Israeli struggle last month when Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky promised Arab terrorists to close it down to Soviet Jews in return for the release of three hostages (TIME, Oct. 15). But so far, Kreisky has taken no steps to impede the flow of Jewish emigrants to and through the transit camp; instead, he has increased security at the camp and assigned gendarmes and plainclothes policemen to guard trains carrying emigrants from the moment they cross into Austria...
...Austrian Ethologist Konrad Lorenz, a couple of shadows marred the sunny days following his capture of the 1973 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (TIME, Oct. 22). First a bunch of trigger-happy hunters shot 19 of his animal subjects: graylag geese living on his Grünau observation grounds. Then came the discovery that the $4,000 Schiller prize, which Lorenz won just after the Nobel, had come from a German neo-Nazi group, who presumably had misunderstood his analysis of violence in On Aggression. Turning the prize money over to Amnesty International, an organization that keeps...