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...political situation here isn't going to change radically until some major disaster comes along. Premier Gaillard lives from day to day. He has got the Assembly off on Easter vacation. When it comes back he has only three weeks to survive until it recesses for senatorial elections in May. After that, it's only a matter of weeks until summer recess. But what difference does it make? Since the abominable 1956 elections, we've been the prisoners of division. Georges Bidault may try. But neither he nor his friends nor anybody else can make...
...Castro sticks to his schedule, the normal round of pre-Easter holy days and holidays will give him a natural assist in closing down the country. The rebel chieftain has long delayed his big move in the hope of winning over enough of organized labor, still officially pro-Batista, to ensure the strike's success. But now he faces another problem: if he postpones the big push again, his Havana network, which must lead the strike, may be fatally weakened by mass arrests and killings...
...hard man to find. But this-if you'll forgive the expression-is Easter Week, and he just might be home...
AFTER nearly two years of negotiations, Minneapolis Institute of Arts Director Richard S. Davis this week announced the acquisition of a handsome new Easter gift for Minneapolis: Anthony van Dyck's Betrayal of Christ. Bought for an estimated $135,000 from a Manhattan art dealer, the painting is a blazing work done by the 17th century Flemish painter when he was barely 23. It has long been recognized as one of the century's outstanding religious paintings, is ranked by Director Davis as "a breath of genius...
...Gaillard can survive until this week's end, when the National Assembly goes on Easter vacation, he can look forward to a full month in which to work toward a settlement with Tunisia, free of parliamentary interference...