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...good roads also have a cost in monotony. The antiseptic highway stretches on and on and on. The green-and-white signs are the same. The little clusters of commerce-at-the-cloverleaf are eminently the same. Even the jargon on the menus of the identical restaurants ("char-broiled steak smothered in mushrooms sauteed in fresh country butter") is the same. Yet, happily enough, as the freeway driver highballs from one similar place to another, leisurely and nostalgic souls who want to sample the color and culture of America's side roads can do so readily...
...perhaps a reason to stay. With Dispatch. Grasping at that hope, thousands of Negroes were flocking to register in the nine counties in Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi where the Gov ernment has posted federal examiners to implement the voting law. They came last week in battered autos and char tered buses and on foot. They stood in the shimmering heat of midsummer, and they waited. Even when registrars as sured them, "We'll be here past today -we'll be here a long time," they still waited. They had, after all, waited a long while for this moment...
...senior economic policymakers waved the red flag - and thereby showed how both ered and uncertain even the healthiest of bulls can become. With some well-timed but somewhat ill-chosen words, William McChesney Martin Jr., pres tigious chairman of the Federal Reserve System, brought out the mercurial char acter of Wall Street psychology, which finds it hard to accept the idea of indefi nitely continuing good times, even when business is most loudly proclaiming its confidence...
GEORGES BRAQUE-Associated American Artists, 605 Fifth Ave. at 49th. A first U.S. showing of 22 color prints done for French Poet Rene Char's Letter a Amoroso, the last lithographs Braque made, signed by him last July shortly before his death. Through...
...harried mobsters load the dumbwaiter with the few provisions they have. From the boss above, though, they get nothing but complaints and increasingly exotic orders (Ormith Macarounada, Char Siu, Scampi). The pair pick at each other jumpily: "We've been through our tests, haven't we? . . . . What's he playing these games for?" At last Ben receives their instructions and the play rushes to a finish, knotted at the end with a violent twist...