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Premier Eyskens' announcement of a plan obviously approved by his Christian Socialist party instantly renewed Belgium's dormant political battle over the King's comeback. Leopold's supporters had gathered a 25-million franc ($71,429) war chest for the impending political campaign. His chief antagonists, the Socialists, were reviving their "action committees" which are supposed to organize strikes if the King should return. Cried one of the Liberal leaders, Gaston Vandewiele: "Leopold is obstinate and a blockhead...
...result of the edict, all fraternities will get rid of their bars this week. The fraternity system is not expected to survive if the ruling is enforced. Student opinion holds this expectation one of the main reasons behind Wriston's decision to evoke the long-dormant rule...
...other spring sports, only one--lacrosse--is totally dormant. Three or four varsity heavy crows are on the river daily, and the golf team has just held its fall tryouts at Dedham Golf Club. Even the baseball team is working out of season: a dozen men (notably outfielders) have organized informal practice...
Crane estimates that 5000 voters, constituting almost 10 percent of the total Cambridge vote, live in the Harvard area. Most of this vote, however, has been dormant in past local elections...
Chicken or Egg? Rheumatic patients carry in themselves the cure as well as the cause of the disease, say Mayo's Drs. Philip S. Hench and Edward C. Kendall. The problem: how to wake up the dormant curative powers in the body. Drs. Hench and Kendall have succeeded in doing it dramatically but temporarily with two hormones: cortisone, originally called compound E,* and ACTH (TIME, May 2). But they were cautious in their report, warned that the hormones are still extremely scarce and that it is too early to tell how safe the long treatment will...