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With considerable pride but without great fanfare, New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art last month announced the acquisition of the famed Belgian Merode triptych. The Annunciation. By last week the Met's purchase of the altarpiece had become an international cause célébre. Said a resolution signed by 22 of Belgium's top museum directors and art teachers: "Often in the course of its history Belgium has had to witness, powerless, the destruction or pillage of its artistic patrimony. Once more, and this time without being able to cite the accident...
...been unavailable for study has not kept art historians from recognizing it as one of the world's masterworks, painted probably in Tournai at the moment when Western art was undergoing its metamorphosis into the style of the Renaissance. It is discussed with reverence in almost every Belgian art course. Done in oil and brushstroked with a miniaturist's love of detail, the altarpiece (see cut) heralds the trend toward realism and shows in a format only 25⅛-in. tall the donors (left), the Annunciation scene and St. Joseph in his workshop, with mousetrap on the windowsill...
...North American will ship reactors to West Germany, where Demag will assemble and sell them. Westinghouse will license Germany's Siemens, No. 2 electrical manufacturer in Europe, to build and sell reactors similar to one now generating power at Shippingport, Pa. Westinghouse has signed same deal with Belgian, Italian firms...
This week the urban elections (or "consultations," as the Belgian authorities prefer to call them) will be extended to Elisabethville and Jadotville, the largest towns in the mining province of Katanga. Next in line: Stanleyville, Bukavu, Luluabourg, Matadi. But not even unlimited economic opportunity can still the demand for political expression, which runs through Africa like a fever. Said one Congolese last week: "This didn't come soon enough, and it isn't enough...
BISHOP ALOYSIUS BIGIRUMWANI, Apostolic Vicar of Ruanda Urundi (bordering on the Belgian Congo), is a descendant of the kings of the famed Watutsi tribe of giants. From a mountaintop mission at Nyundo, overlooking Lake Kivu and the flaring volcanoes of Nyiragongo and Nya-mulagira. tall (6 ft. 3 in.) Bishop Bigi-rumwani, 53, directs five white bishops and 471 priests, both white and Negro. Since his consecration in 1952, 20,000 converts have joined the church in his own diocese, but two-thirds of the half-million tribesmen in the territory he administers as senior bishop are still pagan...