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...longest Cabinet crises (65 days) in Belgian history, the coalition of 15 Christian Socialists and twelve Socialists has been unable to agree on how to deal with the doctors. Harmel's Christian Socialists favor a lenient stand toward the physicians, while the Socialists would like to trim the doctors down to size. Remembering that the last doctors' strike lasted 18 days and ended in a retreat by both sides, Harmel decided to quit before the fighting even began, and submitted his resignation to King Baudouin. That pleased the doctors, who declared that they would not strike...
Reprieved & Relieved. To perform the major surgery that the Baltimore department needs, Governor J. Millard Tawes last week appointed State Adjutant General George M. Gelston, 53, who commanded Maryland's National Guard during the Cambridge race riots of 1963 and 1964. Gelston, a trim, crew-cut six-footer who won plaudits from both whites and Negroes for his fair, imperturbable handling of a potentially bloody conflict, plans a major reorganization, including such reforms as an inspector general to hear complaints from the ranks, stiffer recruitment standards, and more Negro cops...
...Sloop Trim. In public office for 44 of the past 46 years-six as Governor and 21 as Senator-Saltonstall reflected the Brahmin's distaste for the spectacular and the controversial. But few men have worked harder or more competently in the public interest...
Salty could almost certainly have won another term in November. Though at 73 he is still as trim as the sloop he sails on Maine's Penobscot Bay, he decided that he might not be able to serve another six years with all the "zeal, ability and conscientiousness" he demanded of himself. A onetime hockey player and junior varsity oarsman, he returned in 1964 to Britain's Henley Regatta with other hale members of the Harvard '14 crew that had won the Grand Challenge Cup 50 years earlier. Asked by a young newsman last week...
...part-time guide into one of Thailand's biggest agencies, with 80 employees and a fleet of 20 buses and cars. Perhaps the most eminent Thai businesswoman of all is Mrs. Lursakdi Sombatsiri, owner and operator of Bangkok's biggest bus company, the White Bus Line. Trim, thirtyish Mrs. Lursakdi, a former Thai golf champion, inherited the company from her father, built it into one of the country's most progressive businesses. It provides workers with housing, healthy annual bonuses and profit sharing, has helped the emancipation of Thai women by hiring 80 of them to collect...