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...LOOKING GLASS WAR by John le Carré. 320 pages. Coward-McCann...
...hillside overlooking East Germany, the men who have molded the spy, a Pole named Leiser, silently shake his hand. They have come thus far together. Now he must go on alone. "There were no fine words," writes Author Le Carré, his eye fixed on the solitary figure going down the hill into the obliterating night shadows. "It was as if they had all taken leave of Leiser long...
This is Le Carré's dark point, struck like a funeral bell on nearly every page of this book. Leiser is doomed. He descends the hill to foreordained failure in his mission, sensing that those whom he wants to trust will, if it comes to that, abandon him. He has all the significance of a pawn, played and sacrificed in a game that itself has no meaning...
...Cold. After The Spy Who Came In from the Cold lifted Le Carré to the rank of writers liberated from considerations of market, Le Carré admitted that his real name was David Cornwell, his real profession the British Foreign Service, and came out of the cold himself by quitting his job to set up as a full-time writer. He also announced that he had one more espionage story in him and that that one would be his last. This is apparently it, and its thesis must be accepted as Le Carré's terminal conviction...
Died. Sidney Carr Mize, 77, federal judge for the Southern District of Mississippi since 1937, a deep-dyed segregationist who signed the 1962 order admitting Negro Student James Meredith to Ole Miss only after the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals demanded it; after collapsing on the bench a month ago; in Gulf port, Miss...