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...Harlem, Detroit, Chicago, Washington, D.C. -and Los Angeles. Now there was at least a hope of change and perhaps a reason to stay. With Dispatch. Grasping at that hope, thousands of Negroes were flocking to register in the nine counties in Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi where the Gov ernment has posted federal examiners to implement the voting law. They came last week in battered autos and char tered buses and on foot. They stood in the shimmering heat of midsummer, and they waited. Even when registrars as sured them, "We'll be here past today...
...What worried the gov ernment most was the close contact of the two Russians with a plotting exile group led by Lumumba's former Party Chief Christophe Gbenye, who made his headquarters across the Congo River in the ex-French Congo capital of Brazzaville...
...Cambridge, whose 18,000 students so easily inherit British power and glory. Equally resented is the impersonal lecture system at the 19th century urban redbrick universities, whose 46,000 students often feel like social second-raters. Higher education has become a major British political issue. The Conservative gov ernment is about to produce a report, three years in the making, that is expected to recommend even further expansion, and the Labor Party cries that "Britain's economic stagnation is a direct result of neglect of higher education" (see THE WORLD...
Reminder from the Boss. When McDonald takes over as Navy chief in August, President Kennedy said last week, Anderson will "continue to serve the Gov ernment in a position of high responsibility." That position will probably be a diplomatic post in the Mediterranean area, where Anderson can continue to put his naval experience to use. But whatever Anderson's new job, the shift reminded the Pentagon once again that McNamara means to be in absolute charge. Once a decision is made, McNamara said recently, "by God, I expect everyone to fall in line...
...miners, although less than they had asked. Elsewhere, the strike was still spreading. It was clear that the fer ment had made a deep impression on Franco and his top aides; when even Spain's leading Roman Catholic magazine came out in favor of the strikers, the gov ernment hinted that it might legalize non-political strikes, a major break in the 24-year prohibition on labor protests...