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Dead Chicks. To protest such inequities, demonstrators from Antwerp, Ghent and Bruges massed in Brussels. Marching ten abreast down the Avenue du Midi, some of them toting banners with the absurd slogan "Flemish Doctors for Flemish Patients," they ran smack into phalanxes of waiting Walloons, and the riot was on. When one Flemish tough tossed a "thunderflash"-a beer can filled with gunpowder-into the crowd, 4,000 steel-helmeted riot police who had been poised just off the boulevard wheeled into action...
Paul Coremans of the University of Ghent (and a top restorer): "More than half the restoration work now done is good to excellent. A painting, after all, is matter, different layers of matter. Modern science can define each of the layers, can see which one is deteriorating and needs conservation...
...Wolfe, Kenneth '59 B 5.10 175 Norristown, Pa. 44 Kenney, Brian '61 B 6.0 195 Newton, Mass. 48 Hemphill, James '59 B 5.11 181 Johnstown, Pa. 50 Clark, Thomas '61 C 5.10 198 Shaker Hgts., Ohio 51 Will, Howard '61 C 6.0 193 Kenilworth, Ill. 52 Ghent, Edward '59 C 6.2 198 Little Rock, Ark. 56 Gaed, Anton '61 C 6.4 212 Charlotte, N. C. 59 Pyle, Michael '61 C 6.3 217 Winnetka, Ill. 60 West, William '59 G 6.2 205 Shaker Hgts., Ohio 61 Davenport, Raleigh '60 G 5.9 182 Newport News, Va. 62 Balme, Benjamin...
Other attractions on the U.S. Performing Arts program: the New York City Center Light Opera Company's Carousel and Wonderful Town (wrote Ghent's Het Volk: "An absolute revelation!"), and the New York City Opera's Susannah by Carlisle Floyd. Crowds also jammed the Grand Auditorium to hear Violinist Isaac Stern play three times with the Philadelphia Orchestra, turned out again when the Philadelphians and Pianist Van Cliburn played the piece that catapulted him to fame-Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto...
...problem with the energy of Belgium's 59-year-old Baron Marcel Schaetzen de Schaetzenhoff. Last week the Baron invited some of the leading horn groups of Europe to a Grand Festival of Hunting Horns and Venery* held at his 10th century Château of Laarne near Ghent...