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...ROBERT V. YOUNG...
...first direct response came from the federal government. The Justice Department brought more suits against voting registrars in different counties, and a general suit against all 82--U.S. v. Mississippi--was recently argued before the Supreme Court. There is a fair chance that the court may soon rule on this case and perhaps strike down the registration test that is used to keep Negroes from voting. Thus while the Project itself did not register all potential Negro voters, it set in motion the local and national machinery which may eventually do this...
...bankers are better connected or more respected than this distinctly unstuffy and independent lord, who, at 46, is known in London's clubby society circles as "Rowlie." He is the heir to the Baring banking fortune, a godson of the late King George V, and son-in-law of Lord Rothermere the press lord. He has all the marks of aristocracy: Eton, Cambridge (he dropped out after a year), wartime service in the Grenadier Guards, and a postwar stint with J. P. Morgan & Co. in Manhattan before he became managing director of the family bank in 1947. Sent...
What comes next? For one thing, autos; Japan trails badly, with only 15 for every 1,000 people v. 361 in the U.S. The country also lacks housing, roads and schools to match its amazing industry. As Japan shifts more money and manpower into such comparatively nonproductive amenities as these, its overall growth rate is expected to slow down still more, just as Prime Minister Sato wants. Government planners are aiming at 8% for this year, a rate at which they hope to control inflation. Even at 8%, the Japanese economy will still be expanding faster than that...
That's about the only surprise in the new novel by Pierre Boulle (Bridge Over the River Kwai). A shallow attempt at fictionalizing the space age, it traces a handful of Axis rocket engineers from Peenemünde, where they "romantically" built Hitler's V-2s, into the diaspora of the postwar world, where they end up glumly competing with one another in the U.S.-Soviet space race. There is Stern, a faint carbon copy of Wernher von Braun who talks like a cross between Tom Swift and Astroboy. There is Nadia, his luscious White Russian assistant...