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...hated Wall went up in 1961, escapees have ingeniously gotten past it by tunneling, climbing, jumping, or by just knocking it down. Last week a young Austrian outdid them all, smuggling out his pretty fiancée and her mother through the simple expedient of keeping his head down. Heinz Meixner, 20, had moved to West Berlin two years ago to take a job as a lathe worker. As a foreigner, he was able to cross the line freely into East Berlin, where, at a students' dance last September, he fell in love with tiny, attractive Margarete Thurau. When...
...road near the West German town of Lörrach. a would-be assassin fired a pistol shot at a professor engaged in electronics research for Egypt; the bullet missed and the would-be assassin escaped in a car. Biggest unsolved riddle is the whereabouts of Dr. Heinz Krug, 49, boss of a Munich firm that dealt in military hardware for Egypt. Last November, Krug vanished from his office in the company of a polite stranger and has not been seen since...
...SURGEON (245 pp.)-W. C. Heinz -Doubleday...
Author W. C. Heinz, 48, is a former Manhattan sportswriter whose two previous books were about boxing. A Literary Guild selection for March, The Surgeon presumably reflects a doctor's-eye view of the profession, since the author's foreword expresses his debt to a dozen men who cannot be named "because of the anonymity which the medical profession prefers to impose upon its members...
...Author Heinz's obvious intention is to present a picture of selfless and dedicated surgeons. What unfortunately emerges is a group of professionals neurotically obsessed by real and imagined enemies. The patients are bad enough, since they alternate between expecting miracles and expressing astonishment at the size of their bills. It is even worse when a patient has a lawyer in the family. "The shysters have us on the defensive," grumbles Dr. Carter, "and the shame of it all is that you have to order a lot of unnecessary tests." Author Heinz's prescription for the ideal patient...