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...enfranchisement of hundreds of thousands of illiterate tribesmen has its problems. Kenya's Minister for Education, Labor and Lands, Walter Fleming Coutts, appointed to study possible electoral systems, last week proposed multiple voting (an idea that Coutts had read about in Novelist Nevil Shute's satirical In the Wet), by which each voter will have voting points varying according to his educational advancement and status: if he can read, has finished high school, has served five years in the armed services, and been decorated, he can earn up to six votes. Coutts's proposals came under attack...
...BREAKING WAVE, by Nevil Shute (282 pp.; Morrow; $3.50). Why did Jessie Proctor take a bottlefull of sleeping pills? The suicide of his parents' maid is a mystery that challenges Alan Duncan, just returned from Europe to manage the family's huge sheep ranch near Melbourne, Australia. Thanks to the dead girl's diary, Duncan's sleuthing takes him less than 24 hours, but an almost continuous flashback takes him over years of personal history, etched in the common memories of a whole generation of Britons who fought in World War II. Alan discovers that Jessie...
...Lionel Heald, representing the Crown, opened the proceedings by citing Nevil Shute's novel, No Highway, in which the scientist hero predicts that an airliner will crash because of "metal fatigue."* It was this same metal fatigue, said Sir Lionel, that destroyed the Comets...
...little more than an overblown melodrama. As the overly ambitious mother, Italy's expert Actress Magnani gives one of her earthily explosive performances. The trouble is that the role she plays is too flimsy to sustain her powerful acting. Landfall (Associated British Picture Corp.; Stratford Pictures), based on Nevil Shute's 1940 novel, is done in the typically tightlipped, understated style of the best British movies. It tells oi a World War II Royal Air Force lieutenant who is mistakenly believed to have sunk a British submarine instead of a Nazi U-boat...
...against bull-headed officialdom. Director Henry Koster freshens this foolproof formula with suspense and humor, casts Marlene Dietrich in no less foolproof a role as a glamorous movie queen, and surrounds his stars with a talented cast recruited in Britain, where the movie was filmed from a novel by Nevil Shute...