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Statistics describe the dire results: at home, one in seven Belgian drivers is involved in an accident each year. The accident rate (1.4 persons killed or injured per 100,000 car miles traveled) is higher even than in France...
...Though its official traffic fatality rate (1,079 in 1961) is lower than that of either country. Reason: Belgian statistics fudge by including only instant deaths-those that occur at the actual scene of an accident...
...series is already showing on Belgian TV, will start soon in West Germany as well as the U.S.. is being eyed by networks in many other countries, including Russia. Hachette's series will start in the U.S. next spring, is also scheduled for showing in Spain. Next on Hachette's agenda is an "encyclopedia of languages" -TV shows teaching every language in Europe. Pourquois pas indeed...
Born on a farm near the Belgian border, rugged Philippe Lamour migrated to Paris as a young man, became a successful lawyer and politician. In 1940, along with other Parisians, he fled south ahead of the Nazi panzers. Lamour never went back. He stopped running in the Midi town of Bellegarde, bought a rundown, 115-acre tract known as "The Farm of the Partridge," and settled down. At war's end, he added 50 more acres, traded in his horses for tractors and successfully grew strawberries and cauliflower in an area previously wedded to wine...
Sitting under a dark red painting of a huge human fetus in his living room in Ghent, Belgian Painter Octave Landuyt recalled a bit of his childhood. "I lived with my parents in a flat over a local slaughterhouse," he said. "I used to play among dying animals and heaps of entrails, while blood ran in the gutters. I saw bulls stagger under the deathblow, heave up again and again. It all had a primeval greatness...