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...Delicate Equilibrium. Albert Finney became an international star when Saturday Night and Sunday Morning was circulated around the world. The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, scheduled for release in the U.S. this autumn, is an equally good film, and Courtenay's performance has all the detailed excellence of Finney's. He plays Colin Smith 993, an inmate at Her Majesty's Borstal prison at Ruxton Towers. The place is a stately old home landscaped with barbed wire (Sillitoe's way of saying "this sceptered isle"). Smith, son of a factory worker, is the natural enemy...
...immediate slash in present price supports, which tend to perpetuate overproduction by making it profitable to grow crops that are already in oversupply. C.E.D. proposes to cut the supports to the estimated levels that would prevail in a free market after supply and demand had come into equilibrium. The U.S. Government would maintain these "adjustment" supports for five years, then get out of the price-support business completely and permanently. For wheat and a few other oversupply crops, the cut in price would be so great that growers would suffer too drastic a drop in income; for these farmers. C.E.D...
...have brought persistence, patience, thoughtful poise and quiet courage, reflecting the strengths of your Buddhist training in concentration, meditation and equilibrium. William C. DeVane, Dean of Yale...
...basic from of a building, Nervi says, is dictated by the laws of statics, or equilibrium of forces. But "the suggestions given by statics will never in themselves design buildings...
...present, each side has need of the other, but it is a precarious equilibrium, and neither can leave it at that. "If I were plotting a fever chart I'd give Fidel's line a short spurt upward, but surely the trend must point down," says a foreign diplomat in Havana. Working in Roca's favor, say the experts, is the massive indoctrination that has brought 60,000 young Cubans from the countryside to fill expropriated Havana mansions. By day, they learn a trade; by night they learn a Roca brand of Communist discipline. "One day," says...