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...FALL OF A TITAN (629 pp.)-Igor Gouzenko-Norton...
...over his head, and lived with his wife and two children somewhere near Toronto under a "cover" name known to few save the Canadian Mounties, who until recently guarded him round-the-clock. In his solitude Gouzenko spent four years fashioning a 629-page novel, The Fall of a Titan...
Gouzenko's fiction is not, could not be, as explosive as his facts. The Fall of a Titan, a midsummer choice of the Book-of-the-Month Club, is no literary blockbuster, but it does score a direct hit on modern Soviet man and the system that has shaped him. It reveals, despite occasional amateurish moments, that Gouzenko has a professional flair; he travels this long literary distance at an unflagging and often exciting pace...
Over the past six months, the watch over Gouzenko became almost totally unworkable. With his new book, The Fall of a Titan, about to be published, the publicity-conscious author began to set up interviews and to pose for photos wearing a pillowcase mask. Usually he slipped away to the interviews, giving the Mount ies no opportunity to screen his visitors. Said a government official: "Each guy he met could have been Malenkov himself for all we knew...
...Tiny Titan. The first commercial transistor powerful enough to replace vacuum tubes in control devices for industrial machines was announced by Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Co. The size of a thimble, it is 100 times more powerful than any transistor yet available, said Honeywell, can handle 20 watts of current...