Word: belgians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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HOUSE OF LIES, by Françoise Mallet-Joris (311 pp.; Farrar, Straus & Cudahy; $3.75), is a novel with a curiously old fashioned, even Gothic air. An old, wealthy brewer is slowly dying of heart disease in a provincial Belgian town. Around him hovers a cluster of relatives who live for nothing more than the huge fortune they hope to slice. Only one person cares nothing for his money-an illegitimate daughter whom he has acknowledged, taken into his home and educated. Anything but original as a plot-but Author Françoise Mallet-Joris, still only 27, has already...
...people, rather than a superficial tourist's view, that Donald B. Watt had in mind 26 years ago when he made plans for the first Experiment group to go to Switzerland. That first Experiment, in 1932, took a group of American boys to a camp with German and Belgian youths...
...across the Nile at Cairo. The products of Bayer's giant Leverkusen works now fill the drugstores of Southeast Asia. Three years after the French gave up Indo-China, half the cars in Laos are German-made; in an auto race in the Belgian Congo, Volkswagen took the first eight places. The heavy-machinery firm DEMAG has built the first steel works in Egypt, Korea, Burma and the Philippines, and others for France, South Africa, Brazil and India. DEMAG-built furnaces now turn out some 37 million tons of steel a year round the world...
...throng four deep on the sidewalks under the bright lights of Piccadilly Circus, patrol Mayfair, Park Lane and-Bond Street with the lighthearted aplomb of 4-H members at a county fair. The attractions of prostitution in easygoing Britain are also luring large numbers of foreign women-French, German, Belgian, and a sprinkling of Negroes, mostly from the West Indies...
...Whether his eye is fixed on a plant or a planet, a chemical retort or a dialectical retort to Communist propaganda, every Jesuit everywhere owes his unswerving obedience to his tactful, affable and unassuming Superior General. Belgian-born Jesuit Janssens wryly credits his painstaking, lifelong concern for accuracy to the fact that his father was a tax collector. A precocious youngster, young Janssens was first in his class at school every year from the age of nine through 15, won a gold medal and the title primus perpetuus, i.e., everlasting first. At 17, he entered the Society of Jesus, took...