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...police station: he meets Margaret Rutherford on her way in. And Miss Rutherford's gag guest appearance as Agatha Christie's Miss Marple is the only thing that is funny about this arch and clumsy attempt to launch Randall as another celebrated Christie character, the Belgian snooper-sleuth Hercule Poirot...
What is Europe's fastest-growing industrial hub? Frankfurt? Milan? London? No, by the reports of bankers and industrialists, it is Antwerp, the inland Belgian port 55 miles up the River Scheldt from the North...
Antwerp's greatest expansion is in chemicals. Belgium's own Solvay is putting up a polyethylene plant. The U.S.'s Phillips Petroleum is joining with Belgian partners in a $190 million naphtha plant and with France's Rhone-Poulenc in another venture. Union Carbide has $40 million in construction under way; next month a $20 million Monsanto plant will go into operation. With all this, four major U.S. banks have branched into Antwerp in the past year...
...club was established in 1950 by a onetime Belgian diamond cutter, Gérard Blitz, 54, who got into the business by way of running hotels to rehabilitate concentration-camp victims after the war. Blitz now owns 40% of the club's shares, and Baron Edmond de Rothschild's Compagnie Financière 34%. In his original prospectus Blitz said the villages would permit members to escape from offices and factories and "rediscover the natural rhythm of life." Club President Gilbert Trigano, 45, takes a less lofty view. Says he: "We look on vacations as a product...
...Belgian-born Georges Simenon is a great tattletale. His endless series of novels now total about 500, include a mound of pulpy romances, scores of Inspector Maigret mysteries, and dozens of gritty, graceful character studies such as The Premier and The Train. These were first published separately in France some years ago. Both are typical, tidy iterations of an old Simenon thesis: escape in any real sense is impossible...