Word: flemish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Community Footprints. Today, on top of a $174,000-a-year salary, Carter owns $6,600,000 worth of Broadway-Hale stock. He collects 17th century Flemish paintings, often drives to work in his black Jaguar, lives in Bel Air with his handsome second wife, the former Hannah Locke Caldwell, a member of the first (1936) U.S. women's Olympic ski team...
...century, the prosperous Walloons dominated things from their industrial southern strongholds; the northern Flemings were the poor relations. After World War II the balance shifted. The population advantage moved to the Flemings-5,250,000 to 4,000,000-and industry flocked to the cheap labor supply of Flanders. Flemish nationalism flourished, and Flemings bitterly protested that, although Dutch and French had official parity, French was still the language for Flemings who wanted to rise to the top. Few Walloons, they complained, bothered to learn Dutch...
...Belgians are the Congolese of Europe," sniffed an African diplomat as tension approached flash point four years ago. In 1962 and 1963, Walloon and Flemish rioters clashed in the streets of Brussels. Finally, the government devised a plan to end the dispute. French would be the official language of the south, Dutch of the north; Brussels, a French-speaking island in the north, would be bilingual. Extremists on both sides rejected the plan: many Flemings wanted to set up their own semi-autonomous state; the Walloons wanted to keep things as they were-with French the preferred language...
...speak Dutch, is an expert on the problem, therefore seemed a likely choice to revive the battered coalition. He still hopes to win support for language reform. The issue is far from settled. Shortly before the new Premier took office, 80 Flemings stalked out of a church in the Flemish seaside resort of Ostend when the priest began the Mass in French for vacationing Walloons...
...gallery (founded in 1841). The deal primarily, like Childs, in American pictures of the last century; their specialty in marine painting. But at any given time they may also have works of high quality of other periods; currently their stock includes a fine Fanti-Latour and several Flemish still-lifes. As they do not run regular exhibits this is mainly a gallery for the serious collector.ALBERT ALCALAY: Structure, Structure, Structure...