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...almost any change. The empire was gone, the nation still bitterly divided by the fratricidal year-end strike set off by the austerity measures designed to make up for the $215 million a year that Belgium had been accustomed to extracting from the Congo. The new year saw the freakish collapse of a slag heap near Liege, burying six homes and eleven persons. It also brought the worst air disaster in Belgian history, a Sabena jet crash that killed 73. In anger over the Congo, often under Communist leadership, Belgian embassies and consulates were being looted and burned around...
...seen, seven smaller flares had been observed, like rumblings before a storm. When a flare breaks out it spews a large number of electrically charged particles out into space; the bombardment of the Earth's atmosphere by these particles is thought to be the cause of aurorae, magnetic disturbances, freakish radio reception or blackout, and even the generation of unusual electrical currents in telephone wires and power lines...
With its scarifyingly freakish weather, eerie sounds and collapsing houses, Cock-a-Doodle Dandy becomes at times a farcical free-for-all, as at other times it blares a propagandist freedom-for-no-one. Much of the writing, whether wrathful, lyrical or lowdown, has the true O'Casey tang. And despite symbols that are more like stencils and incidents too much like one another, Cock-a-Doodle Dandy has its amusing scenes and its fiery ones. Unhappily, in a quite un-Gaelic and ponderous production, there emerges nothing of the robustly comic playwright; the horseplay is elephantine, the darts...
...Bunch of Uncles." For his freakish TV success and, more important, for being the remarkable young man he is, Charles Van Doren owes most to the remarkable Van Doren family (see box). Says a friend: "I have always thought the Van Dorens the most successful family I've ever experienced in terms of closeness, intellectual vitality, mutual respect, in terms of exchange of ideas and the flow of electricity that keeps everybody learning all the time. Charlie spent his whole life saturated in this sort of thing." His father is Mark Van Doren, 62, Pulitzer Prizewinning poet and professor...
...Monica Mountains drop down to the Pacific. One reason for Malibu's attractiveness: when other parts of Los Angeles County are stifling with smog (partly abetted by the exhaust fumes from the county's 2,500,000 cars), Malibu, a jutting beach area, is swept clean by freakish, cold, dry desert winds...