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Despite these potholes in the road, the bold adventurers on 128 say that the period of biggest growth is ahead. So many research-based companies were being formed around Boston last week that plans were afoot to build another highway, swinging out beyond 128, to accommodate them. The believers in the Space Highway hold that when the climate produces ideas, growth is sure to follow...
...onetime locomotive engineer, insisted, as he later put it, that there were "diabolic" plots afoot, "strikes, riots, then real violence culminating in assassination of whites and Africans." In the end, Armitage, who himself expressed no such fears, transmitted them to London, proclaimed an emergency in Nyasaland, began mass arrests, and banned the African National Congress, which he conceded was the most popular political movement in a land where there are 3,000,000 blacks and only 8,000 whites. These fateful steps were taken after a week of jitteriness (TIME, March 9) in which men lost their lives...
Perry Mason (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). The hero of Erie Stanley Gardner's world series is a bit overweight and slow afoot in the TV version, but his win-loss record is as good as it ever...
CREDIT CARD REVOLT is growing among restaurateurs, who protest clubs' 7% fees. Seattle eating places are adding 5% to bills charged on credit cards. Idea has been adopted by Wisconsin's restaurant association; similar moves are afoot in San Francisco, Manhattan, Baltimore...
...Dinah Shore Show (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Sid Caesar fans must be fast afoot and nimble in the dialing finger if they are to catch him these days, but he can be seen briefly here. Color...