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...hungry again. No one, probably not even Deighton, can follow a Deighton plot. Like its forerunners, The Ipcress File and the bestselling Funeral in Berlin, this one winds along a serpentine of intrigue that defies both credibility and comprehension. It involves an anonymous secret agent, a fetching and murderous Finnish girl, a linear computer that can call people on the telephone, and a clutch of hen's eggs inoculated with a deadly virus...
Easing in New York. The situation, however, annoys European governments and agencies whose own issues are shouldered aside in the rush for American issues, which pay less interest but often have the attraction of convertibility into shares of common stock. Recent Dutch and Finnish bond issues sold badly; the European Coal and Steel Community has postponed a $20 million issue in view of market uncertainty as has the Transalpine Pipeline Co.; the Swiss bond market has sagged 10% in recent months as investors have sold European holdings to buy American. Europeans are increasingly waspish about the disproportionate share of their...
...impressions while flying around the lecture circuit or to Europe, works them out only on weekends. A scholar as well, he has taught in seven colleges since graduating with an M.A. from Yale, written four books, including biographies of the artists George Caleb Bingham, Boardman Robinson and Finnish-born Architect Eliel Saarinen, under whom he worked at Michigan's Cranbrook Academy...
...poetic imagery, Lean led a camera unit almost to the Arctic Circle, hired Lapland nomads to portray Siberian refugees. To record the long train trip from Moscow to the Urals that is the central odyssey of the novel, Lean went into below-zero temperatures in the northern Finnish lumber town of Joensuu, photographed the "refugees" trekking across Lake Pyhaselka, over which, during the 1940 Russian invasion of Finland, the Soviets had actually laid a winter railway...
...climbed into a lifeboat intending to reboard her astern, but decided instead to carry injured passengers in the boat to the rescue ship Finnpulp. Another reason for accompanying them, his lawyer maintained, was to ask the Finnpulp to radio an S O S to other ships-which the Finnish freighter had already done. Many crewmen accused their captain of deserting them, but Voutsinas vowed that he had returned, directed the rescue and had been the last to leave the Castle, his first passenger command. "It was the best ship I ever served on," he insisted. "It was in perfect condition...