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...with a touch of sadness that renowned Physicist Leopold Infeld, 63, a close collaborator of Albert Einstein, gave up his Canadian citizenship eleven years ago and returned home to Poland. After 17 years in the West, said Infeld at the time, "I have come to love and admire Canada's democratic spirit, its sense of fair play." Now chairman of Poland's Atomic Energy Commission, Infeld recalls these Western values-within the limits set by Poland's cultural commissars. In a semi-official magazine. Infeld dutifully asserts that freedom in the U.S. is diminishing, but adds...
...church (after Cardinals Tardini and Canali) to die within eight days; after a long circulatory illness; in Mechlin, Belgium. A lifelong political activist known to his flock as "the Iron Bishop," Cardinal Van Roey excommunicated World War II Belgian quislings, unsuccessfully opposed the abdication of ex-King Leopold, and denounced with equal fervor his nation's prewar fascists and postwar socialists...
...Britain's George V (five times) was succeeded by George VI (four covers) and now Elizabeth II (five times), not to mention other members of the family, such as the Duke of Windsor and Margaret. Similarly, Belgium's royal family progresses from Albert in 1928 to Son Leopold III in 1937 and on to Grandson Baudouin. On the other hand, the Iranian dynasty, which is younger than TIME, began with a soldier named Reza Shah Pahlevi, who made TIME'S cover three times and was succeeded by his son, the present Shah, who has made it twice...
...bedroom telephone. Morin answered: "I'm not free. These gentlemen are in my room. I can't say any more except that we're well." Debre at once aroused De Gaulle, who had spent the evening at the thea ter with Senegal's Poet-President Leopold Senghor...
...belongs to a rising new generation of European leaders, is scarcely known outside his own country. A wartime resistance leader, tough, determined Lefèvre entered Parliament at 32 as a fervent royalist. When his party's old guard acquiesced to the Socialists' demand for Leopold III's abdication, Lefèvre organized a "Young Turks" revolt, and took over the party leadership. The oldtimers growled, "Let him break his bones on the job." Instead, he built up the Social Christian propaganda apparatus, tightened discipline and led his party in onslaught after onslaught against the Socialists. Those...