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...Congo. A thousand miles to the West, in the prosperous Congo, Belgian Governor General Léo Pétillon, 52, spoke out still more boldly. To the 14 million Negroes and 70,000 whites he announced a drastic change in Belgium's successful policy of economic advance but no votes -for whites or blacks. Henceforth, educated Africans will 1) be gradually assimilated into the Congo's administration, 2) get a voice in local councils...
...Alberta oil grew bigger last week. Eric Lafferty Harvie, 63, a Calgary lawyer whose oil earnings to date are estimated at more than $120 million, sold control of his Western Leaseholds Ltd. for an undisclosed price. The buyer was Compagnie Financière Beige des Petroles (Petrofina), a Belgian company with worldwide holdings which is rapidly building and buying its way into a top position in Canada...
...Even if I were going to be hung, I would come anyway," Bell recently wrote to his wife. The third American, William Cowart of Dalton, Ga., wanted to go to Japan. A couple of Belgian army deserters also wanted to get out of Red China, respectively in favor of the U.S. and Laos...
...blunders began, but did not end, with Khrushchev's airport speech (TIME, June 6). At a diplomatic banquet in Belgrade's White Palace, Khrushchev insultingly asked the Belgian ambassador whether his country was free, and when assured that it was, remarked that the Belgian could only say that because the U.S. ambassador had just left. Goateed Premier Nikolai Bulganin undiplomatically proposed a toast to neutrality, only to have Tito announce bluntly that Yugoslavia was neither neutral nor neutralist, but fiercely independent. Bulganin said lamely he had meant Switzerland...
...Daniel George van Beuningen, 78, retired Dutch businessman, famed as the owner of one of the great private art collections of Europe; of an embolism; in Arlesheim, Switzerland. To prove that the Last Supper in his collection was a genuine Vermeer, Van Beuningen brought suit in 1952 against famed Belgian Art Expert Paul Coremans, who claimed that the picture was actually one of the fakes that Dutch Art Forger Hans van Meegeren started unloading on the European art market in the late 1930s. Van Beuningen died two days before the oft-postponed suit was to come to trial in Brussels...