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...large programs are now operating: the General Motors National Program, and National Merit Scholarships, a $20,000,000 offspring of the Ford Foundation, born last September. Both plans have one stated aim--to draw more of America's potential talent into higher education, the highroad to an industrial desk...
Britain has been speeding along the highroad of prosperity, but wages and prices are rising, and industries busy meeting domestic needs have been draining off gold and dollar reserves by importing more goods than they could match in exports. "The Chancellor of the Exchequer has to be ready to step on the gas or apply the brake," explained Butler last week. "Frankly, the time has now come for a bit of the brake...
...starvation, the Young Composer manages to play snatches from his symphony for the Great Conductor, who is entranced. "We will perform it at Edinburgh next month," he promises, and the average moviegoer can go home happily confident that the Young Composer is over the last hurdle on the highroad to success-and perhaps even to Hollywood Bowl. But composers in the audience will have one more worry about the hero: Where will he get the $1,000 or so to pay for having his symphony copied so that it can be played by an orchestra...
Last week, winding up a three-month-long forum on what to do about the Appia, Rome's Giornale d'ltalia decided that public opinion is so diverse "as to embarrass anyone who wants to draw active and positive conclusions." Whizzing along the highroad of a new 20th century Renaissance in their motor scooters and Alfa Romeos, the great mass of Italians seemed quite content to let the old Via Appia find its own way into the future as it had out of the past. "We too are making history," said one Roman, "and who knows-maybe...
This book belongs to the cozy tradition of bedside belles-lettres. The selections, picked well off the main highroad of English literature, range from stormy thrillers to sunny farce, from the thunder of Samuel Johnson's prose to the lightning of Aldous Huxley's. They include little-known works by little-read writers as well as little read works by well-known writers: Maria Edgeworth, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Mrs. Gaskell, George Eliot, Joseph Conrad, George Meredith, Thomas Love Peacock, William Hazlitt, Virginia Woolf. Few readers will like all of these stories, but almost everybody will be entertained...