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Party Congresses also provide rare glimpses into the process of renewal within the leadership. As results of factional fights begin to appear, new faces emerge from the shadows, others fade. The present Soviet leadership changes at a glacial pace. But shifts do take place, and from a purely actuarial standpoint, the present Politburo is not an insurance man's dream. Eight of its eleven members are well into their 60s, making the body something of a gerontocracy (average...
...arrange his murdered brother's funeral. In this case, that means maiming, murdering or brutalizing what seems like half the population of Newcastle-a process Hodges shows in elaborate and gory detail. Against such competition, one or two good things tend to get lost: a first-rate, glacial performance by Caine, and the brooding, striking photography of Wolfgang Suschitsky. Neither Hodges nor anyone else connected with the film seems to have understood that Chandler's private eye, Philip Marlowe, is really a knight...
...ARVN advance was almost glacial -slowed by twisting terrain, mud that sucked at tank treads, and fears of rushing headlong into what Vice Premier Nguyen Cao Ky described last week as "our Dien Bien Phu." Instead of a lightning strike, the ARVN invasion commander, Lieut. General Hoang Xuan Lam, employed a cautious leapfrogging technique designed to keep his troops within range of friendly artillery...
Something Less. Progress in the negotiations, if any, is likely to come with glacial slowness. Jarring will likely use his 38th-floor office at the U.N.'s Manhattan headquarters as his base. Initially at least, he will confer separately with the U.N. ambassadors of Egypt, Jordan and Israel. Eventually, Israel hopes to move the talks closer to home-say to Cyprus or Geneva-to elevate them to the foreign minister level and to hold them face-to-face...
...still be affected by it. Could part of California actually split off from the mainland along this seam, as some people fear? Wilson acknowledges that the area west of the fault is edging slowly northward. But he is confident that because the movement is at a less-than-glacial pace of an inch or so a year, California will remain part of the North American continent for millions of years to come...