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...urbane drawing room comedy, the other the bedroom of his nagging, hypochondriac wife, used for one climactic scene of hysterical bedroom farce. The play's conflict is between hysteria and urbanity, the passionate idealism of youth and the orderly boredom of old age. (The General says, "Life, Gaston, is one long family lunch, tiresome because it has to be performed according to a long established ritual, with initialed napkin rings, embroidered table mats, forks of different shapes and sizes and a bell push under the table. It is a game we have agreed to play ... until the coffee...
...began when Premier Gaston Eyskens brought up the bill for leaving the Congo. Suddenly, Belgians discovered that the Congo would cost not only humiliation but money-in lost export revenue, tourist income, shipping profits and earnings on Congo raw materials. To make up the loss of empire and to streamline Belgium's overburdened social welfare system, Eyskens proposed an austerity program that would raise taxes by $120 million, cut government spending by $200 million on such things as unemployment benefits and old-age pensions...
...Stupidest Man of the Year: Belgium's Premier Gaston Eyskens-the man who unleashed the barbaric horde at Léopoldville in July...
Three plays later, Brown had gone eight yards forward and four yards backward. On fourth down, halfback Bobby Myles rolled out to the right and tried a pass, which was intercepted by the varsity's Tom Gaston on the Harvard 19. But a bone-crushing tackle by the 5 ft., 6 in., 140-lb. Myles shook Bruce Macintyre loose from the ball on the next play, and the Bruins had yet another chance...
...line, where it showed consistent quality almost three deep last week, the Crimson rates an edge. Captain Torry Lensner, sidelined with a knee injury, will be missed, but Tom Gaston did a fine job in Lonsner's place for the second half against Penn. With Ravenel still out, junior Ted Halaby, who has led the team to three straight wins, will be at quarterback, with McIntyre, Repsher and Nelson running with him in the first backfield unit...