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...eight lawyers and backed by some 150 Negro spectators, many of them wearing cloth crosses with the words, "Father, forgive them." Prosecutor William Thetford produced evidence that the Montgomery Improvement Association had disbursed about $30,000 for boycott purposes; e.g., drivers in the boycott's 200-car motor pool were paid up to $24 a week...
Only Playwright-Actor-Producer Noel Coward managed to give the door a backspin. After two shows (Together with Music, Blithe Spirit), Sponsor Ford Motor Co. decided Coward was "too sophisticated" and vetoed his third show, a version of his 1943 play Present Laughter, scheduled for May. Said Coward amiably: "If they don't like it, I'll do another for them. After all, I've written 26 plays and it shouldn't take long to whip out a new one." Mollified, Ford settled for a TV interpretation of Coward's superpatriotic This Happy Breed...
...Motor traffic in U.S cities is rapidly going automatic, with electronic computers presiding over its flow. Latest system to go into operation is at Atlanta (pop. 470,000), where Ponce de Leon Avenue has a new-type, all-seeing Big Brother to do the thinking for its traffic cops...
...midland city's 172,000 workers, last week was shutting down assembly lines and was cut back to a four-day week, while unsold cars spilled over onto abandoned airstrips and playing fields. And there was worse to come. Britain's No. 1 automaker, British Motor Corp. (Morris, Austin, M.G., Riley and Wolseley) last week announced a 7.5% price increase. Though Britons rushed to buy new cars before the price boost went into effect, the industry still had 70,000 unsold autos at week's end and will find it even harder to sell its output from...
Britain has been hardest hit by Germany, which has already overhauled Britain in the U.S. (where 29,000 Volkswagens were sold in 1955), is fast pulling ahead in European markets as well. Last week, as British Motor Corp. raised prices, Volkswagen, which cut prices seven months ago, hinted that it will soon reduce them again in a bid for bigger sales...