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...about Laos, was sufficiently impressed by the paper to be annoyed about it. "You will not find a crack in the Sino-Soviet alliance any more than you will find one in a duck's egg," he told a French reporter. But he could not resist adding: "The heaviest Soviet satellite weighs four tons. China is too heavy to become a satellite.'' A Polish Communist source insisted that the Deutscher paper was "technically false," but conceded in the next breath that it nevertheless reflected the state of Moscow-Peking relations "with 90% accuracy...
...temple, then drive shafts and tunnels around and under it. In this way, they will construct bit by bit an enormously strong, roughly cubical caisson of reinforced concrete to enclose the temple. The great box with its contents will weigh something like 300,000 tons, will probably be the heaviest weight ever lifted...
...position to betray British agents working behind the Iron Curtain. Lord Parker took only 53 minutes to reach his decision. Blake's disloyalty, he commented, "rendered much of this country's efforts completely useless." He then sentenced him to 42 years in prison, the heaviest term handed out by any British court for espionage during peacetime in this century...
...Harold Rhodes, burdened with two lead-weight suitcases, just makes a train: "The station agent took their tickets gravely from between Harold's teeth." He has not created profound characters in the Rhodeses, but he has recorded a profound change of attitude. At book's beginning the heaviest luggage the Rhodeses carry is their own inferiority complex. They think they know what they want-to be French; at book's end they know and accept what they are-Americans. Treating Europe and America as parent and child, William Maxwell has unfolded the recurring cycle of maturity...
...type. Actor Finney, under the keen direction of Karel Reisz, a gifted maker of documentary movies, embodies the type with remarkable vigor and exact ness. Finney's strongest asset as an actor is his presence, an inward weight that holds the center of every scene, as the heaviest fish holds the bottom of a net. But he is also a grandly gifted mimic. His dullard eye and dirgelike stroke, as he rides his bike to work, present an ex erience as old as that of the fellah on the water wheel - the quiet desperation of the man who works...