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Real Division. But it was becoming ominously clear that blocking Gaston Eyskens' bill was no longer the lone, clear issue among the swirling mobs of strikers and the Socialist slogan slingers. The dammed-up bitterness of a nation sharply divided for generations was flowing again, underlining anew the point made by a statesman to his King 40 years ago: "Sire, there are no Belgians. There are only Flemings and Walloons." The largely agricultural Flemings of the Dutch-speaking north for years have felt that successive governments have discriminated against them in favor of the French-speaking Walloons...
Around Estrada's recently published discoveries, the old argument is brewing anew. Unconvinced, Anthropologist Matthew Stirling, long with the Smithsonian, says that headrests are worldwide, and people living in similar climates are apt to have similar house designs. As for the Buddha-like figurines: "There are only a few ways," says Stirling, "for a human being to sit down." Harvard Anthropologist Gordon Willey is also skeptical. Says Willey: "The high American civilizations from Mexico to Peru had been rolling for 1,500 to 2,000 years before this possible Asiatic migration...
...Nobel prizewinners in science for 1960 (Chemist Libby is the other). Glaser's award came for his development of the bubble chamber, a quantum jump in the study of atomic particles. But at age 34, Glaser is about to start his scientific life anew, switching to microbiology, which has an irresistible lure for his insatiable curiosity...
...Promptly the Wall Street Journal disputed him: "This system works remarkably well . . . Abolishing it would be one more blow at the federal structure, one more step toward centralization of power in the National Government." In the wake of the 20th century's closest election, politicos and pundits locked anew in an old debate: Should the electoral college be abolished, or reformed to enhance the power of the popular vote...
...time at all, Puerto Rico was being added as a horrible example in the anti-Catholic pamphleteering that is present in varying degrees across the U.S. But the concern was not confined to bigots. The bishops' ban raised anew the legitimate questions of Protestants (and some Catholics) who had heard Catholic Candidate Jack Kennedy pledge repeatedly that his church had no power to influence a Catholic's political decisions. As news of the first edict spread, Midwestern newspapers were peppered with questioning protests. In Denver widely respected Methodist Bishop Glenn R. Phillips announced that...