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...about 50, vice chairman of the Politburo, secretary of the Central Committee. Little known but very powerful. Close to Mao, and said by some to be the heir apparent. Theorist and dogmatist of the party and, like Stalin and Malenkov in Russia, the one who controls its elaborate apparatus. He was practically unknown outside the party a decade ago; his first book, How to Be a Good Communist, introduced him in 1939 as a prime dialectician. Married: twice (first wife killed by Kuomintang troops in 1934). Children: a son and daughter of whom it has been said that, when they...
...sources hint that there are others. Try as it may, Communist propaganda cannot mutter a simple "good riddance" at the defections of such people. They know too much. Evdokia Petrov was not just a spy's wife. As an expert code clerk in her husband's espionage apparatus in Australia's Russian embassy, she knew secrets...
...astonished Parliament that Petrov had been Russia's MVD chief in Australia, had headed an elaborate spy ring involving several Australian nationals. How did the Prime Minister know? Vladimir Petrov had defected to the West, bringing with him hundreds of documents that would serve to smash the spy apparatus completely...
...result, says Boeing, is that the engine exerts more than 40% of its thrust in reverse, thus braking the airplane in the same manner as a reversed propeller. When not in use, the apparatus is completely out of the gas stream and so has no effect on the engine's operation. It weighs about 200 lbs. per engine, 800 lbs. for a four-jet airplane...
...Guts" strategy is sometimes impracticable because of the size of the apparatus. A less strenuous type of phonemanship is the "Bell Method." In this ploy, one need only carry with him a set of bells. After having mastered the different sound combinations by which the operator can tell how much is put into the machine, the phonester merely taps his bells in the proper rhythm and places his call...