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...younger brother John (sometime Governor of Connecticut, now Ambassador to Spain), "Cab" Lodge followed the beaten Brahmin path to Harvard. By taking extra courses, he finished up in three years. "I disliked the academic atmosphere," he says. "I wanted to get going." He graduated cum laude despite the speedup, explains that he did it the easy way, by majoring in Romance languages, taking advantage of the fluent French he learned at schools he attended in Paris...
Slowdown in Speedup. In Belgium, usually the first European country to suffer when the demand for steel and coal slumps, industrial output has sagged 6% in the first quarter of 1958. Bank of Brussels Economist Albert de Lettenhove reports "no signs as yet of any revival-the recession may have reached bottom in the States, but not here...
...engineer of the German production miracle, a slowdown is not without advantages for his highly flexible economy, for rising costs were beginning to threaten Germany's competitive position. And one Italian economist dismisses his own country's recession as no more than "a slowdown in the speedup...
...past two years. The first four months of 1958 had registered a significant "leap forward" in industrial and agricultural production, he added. Western specialists believe there is opposition inside the top leadership over the relentless "leap forward" policy, and noted how much space Liu devoted to justifying the speedup. Connoisseurs of Communist politics also noted that Liu gave "credit" for the policy no less than a dozen times to Mao, thereby establishing his responsibility...
...long, dim view of this nuptial speedup is taken this week by the Christian Century: "By what great shift in sociology, psychology, temperature or radiation are we to account for that clamant coupling of pre-ministerial students which threatens now to turn our dormitories into nurseries, our campuses into playpens, our graduate colleges into preschools? Ordinarily we would plead for no ivory tower, but if the choice is ivory tower or brooder coop, the remoter symbol looks better all the time...