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...TH. STEPHEN...
Architect of peace, and Belgium's new Premier, is Théo Lefèvre, burly, beak-nosed boss of the Social Christians. At 47, Lefèvre 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...
Despite their losses, the Social Christians were still the strongest party, would be the backbone of any new coalition. Badly trounced Gaston Eyskens would not be at its head. Emerging as new Social Christian candidate for the premiership is tough, freewheeling 47-year-old Théo Lefèvre. president of the party since 1950. In the end, Lefèvre would probably turn not to the Liberals but to the Socialists for help in forming a government. Socialist Leader Paul-Henri Spaak himself has ambitions for the nation's top job; moreover, the Socialists insisted that they...
Mounting opposition in both Cambridge and other parts of the Common th made it seem likely yesterday that Governor Volpe will veto the controversel bill to surrender part of the Common for the Sullivan office building ilts...
Early in the book, for example, the reader meets a pubescent lad who talks Elizabethan. Asked when his parents will return from the movies, he replies: "Not till the witching hour methinks, or worse. For no more will th' embattled hombres make their peace in the mesa'd West, their smoking armaments put by, than Cary Grant will post him through such feats as Hitchcock doth concoct." Pretty chilling, but De Vries really sets in a little later when a maiden solemnly informs her swain that "It would be terrible to be regarded as a child-bearing machine...