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...BELGIAN VILLAGE gets an A for architecture-a delightful replica of a Flemish town-but bad marks for allowing pizza parlors and egg-roll stands to compete with colorful shops selling crepes suzette, Belgian cookies, lace and crystal...
...such is Colonel Leonard Mulamba of the government forces, commander of the garrison that fought off the bloody rebel invasion of Bukavu and gave the Congolese army something it could be proud of for a change. Mulamba, a tough disciplinarian who got his training as an adjutant in the Belgian Congo Force Publique, last week tried to turn his victory into a springboard for reform...
...BELGIAN VILLAGE advertised itself for months as being "worth waiting for." Open at last, it has proved something of a disappointment, since its charming, smaller-than-life evocation of an ancient Flemish town is still not complete. It may be worth waiting for a while longer...
...season gets under way. Among other steps, they have made overtures to Russia to participate. Other pep-up programs are planned by individual exhibitors. While several good shows may simply not be able to return next year, much of the promising Hall of Science and the Belgian Village have yet to open. The prospect is that the fair will continue as something quite a bit better than a financial or esthetic wilderness, but less than Moses' promised land...
...popular fancy, William Morris prints are the current fashion fabric hit. Munich's taste-setting decorator store, Die Einrichtung, recently supplemented its modern pieces with settees, rosewood chests, chairs, shelves and ceramics whose curvaceous shape and exotic flavor display kinship with the tenets of Henry van de Velde, Belgian painter, architect, designer, and leading prophet of art nouveau 70 years...