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Indispensable Shield. But Belgium and The Netherlands still balked at the whole idea. Tough-minded Belgian Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak, one of the Common Market's founding fathers, deeply distrusts De Gaulle's obstructionist foreign policy, fears that a Europe of Fatherlands would give short shrift to smaller nations. In fact, the Benelux nations are only waging a delaying action until Britain joins the Common Market. Confident that the British will prove a powerful counterweight to France and a staunchly pro-NATO voice in its councils, they will be less fearful of confederation as a halfway house...
...manufactures the Scenicruiser, turned him away. The Scenicruiser dies, explained G.M., belonged to Greyhound, and would be all tied up on Greyhound production for years to come. Undaunted, Moore ordered his engineers to design a big new bus of their own. Then he went ahead and lined up a Belgian firm to build them, and by 1957 had the first of his flashy new Eagle buses on the road...
Died. Michel de Ghelderode (real name: Aldemar Martens). 63, noted Belgian playwright whose darkling dramas on medieval Flemish themes (best known: Splendors of Hell, Pantagleize) foreshadowed today's "theater of the absurd," a wizened hermit who rarely left the "dream'' room where he wrote surrounded by sepulchral puppets dressed up as characters from his plays; of asthma; in Brussels...
...fatal plunge of the 707 may have been caused by misbehavior of its hydraulic control system. There have been many instances, both proved and suspected, when the hydraulic system has made the aircraft extremely difficult for the pilot to control. This seems to have happened when a Sabena (Belgian) Airlines 707 crashed at Brussels in February 1961, killing 18 members of the U.S. figure-skating team. Though...
...Belgian government has said nothing, it is an open secret in Washington that when Sabena's 707 nosed up sharply and fell in a whirling stall, its controls were found locked in full nose-up position...