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...Driving a Lotus, its brakes virtually useless for the last 15 laps, Britain's Stirling Moss averaged 91.3 m.p.h., fast enough to win the 203-mile Pacific Grand Prix at Monterey, Calif...
Having become discouraged with the state of affairs in the Western World, bewildered with anxiety for its future, novelist Arthur Koestler decided to set forth on a "spiritual pilgrimage" to the East, hoping to find some solution to the world's problems. The Lotus and the Robot is the result of that journey...
...Koestler is immediately impressed by the beauty of the Japanese islands, but he is also troubled by the Western modernization of that country. It is this combination of the ancient--the Lotus--and the modern--the Robot--which gave Mr. Koestler the title for his book. He apparently decided that the latter was the more dominant of the two forces, and expresses grave misgivings about the psychological instability which the Robot has forced upon the Japanese people. After surmising that the Japanese are not capable of coping with their own spiritual and philosophical problems, Mr. Koestler very neatly dismisses another...
Fortunately, The Lotus and the Robot contains some reasonably descriptive accounts of the impoverished conditions of urban and rural India, and a few interesting observations on the country's Hindu saints. As a contribution to philosophy, it is dubious...
...factory team. When the cars went off, Von Trips quickly faltered and fell behind. He had a history of first-lap trouble; fellow racers said of him: "If he gets past the first lap, he's all right." He was fifth, behind three Ferraris, and a forest-green Lotus driven by Britain's Jimmy Clark...