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...crisis." Other China experts agree. The Communists have unified the provinces, centralized all authority and imposed a totalitarian administration that has steadily tightened its grip on all phases of government and life. Chairman Mao Tse-tung's chilling philosophy is that "all political power grows out of the barrel of a gun." The gun that ensures his control is held by the Chinese Communist Party apparatus, whose 19 million members make up the largest of all national Communist parties. At its apex perch Mao and his top comrades in a seven-member Politburo Standing Committee; beneath them...
...boutiques. After watching the kinky Whip Dancers brought up from Andy Warhol's new discotheque, self-conscious squares rushed to get into the mod in the "Space Age Boutique." There, "his" and "her" cylindrical dressing booths hung from the ceiling; changing in them was like dressing inside a barrel, with head and legs exposed. To cheer the customers on, each booth was decorated inside with a leering photograph of the opposite...
Rope's most striking asset is Gert Frobe, as a pig-eyed book seller who peers through inch-thick spectacles and proves to be a barrel of rare old felon in the very first scene. The night is dark; Frobe approaches a woman seated alone on a bus at a rest stop somewhere between Nice and Grasse, drags her into a small park and stabs her. The victim is his wife, and Frobe has such an airtight alibi that the murder case would be swiftly closed except for a rich young stranger (Maurice Ronet), who is interested in uxoricide...
...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). A celebration of the fifth anniversary of this excellent series, with segments from previous shows including Grand Prix auto races, rodeos, figure skating, a rattlesnake hunt, barrel jumping and many others...
Since 1952, Malamud has write five books. His most recent novel, Idiots First, was first published in 1963. Two years before he wrote A New Life, a story about a New Yorker teaching in the West. In 1958, Malamud's Magic Barrel, a book of short stories about Jews searching for a lost past, won the National Book Award. The Natural, a book about a baseball player, appeared in 1952, and was followed in 1957 by The Assistant, a novel about a shoemaker...