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South of the Border. Dr. Koprowski's Wistar version of live vaccine got its mass test in 215,000 subjects in the Belgian Congo and Ruanda (TIME, Aug. 11). Variants developed by Lederle Laboratories since he left are being widely used in Latin America...
...anxious to assert its authority and frightened by the recent outbreaks in the Belgian Congo, the Federal government's reaction was hasty and excessive. A state of emergency was declared, the African Congress was banned, and Dr. Banda and many of its leaders were arrested. While these measures may have been necessary to preserve the peace, the use of white Rhodesian reservists in Nyasaland, rather than the British ones available in Kenya, was not needed, and is certain to stimulate bad feeling. Equally unfortunate was the recent forceful expulsion of a visiting Labourite Member of Parliament, who was accused, perhaps...
...that they will meet Fellow Scholar Brian Moser heading in the opposite direction. He plans to spend a year riding a horse from Colombia to the wind-lashed Tierra del Fuego, near the southern tip of the continent. As he limbers up, another Cambridge group far off in the Belgian Congo will be busy at their study of nematode worms...
PRIX GONCOURT. Hardly anyone had heard of the winning book, Saint-Germain, ou la Negotiation, before the award was announced, but the prize assures a sale of 100,000 copies. Written by Francis Walder, a retired Belgian artillery officer turned minor diplomat, Saint-Germain is a diplomat's reconstruction of the negotiations that led up to the peace of Saint-Germain, the temporary truce between French Huguenots and French Catholics before the St. Bartholomew Massacre of 1572. "One can understand his wanting to write the book," sniffed one critic who struggled through it, "but what one cannot understand...
...scourge that keeps him in torment and sometimes torments his friends. He finds himself in North Africa for a vacation, an opportunity to think about his recent conversion and about his new status of widower. Yet he is already sitting in judgment. In a bar he is telling a Belgian prostitute he has just met that "making men happy" is wrong. A Catholic too, she replies: "You are obviously a convert. They are always so scrupulous...