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Maurice Van Hemelrijck, 57, a man with a flair for dramatic decisions, is Belgium's Minister for the Congo-and hopes very much to be the last one. Long before the bloody Léopoldville riots last January, he had warned his government that unless it began giving the Congo democracy and some sort of independence, it would face "catastrophe" and lose the colony altogether. When he flew into Léopoldville last week, he got the kind of ugly welcome that France's Premier Guy Mollet once got in Algiers. Angry white settlers shut up their shops...
Before a House Government Operations subcommittee, salty, short-fused Vice Admiral Hyman G. Rickover exploded with a touching plea. Unless Congress mows down the growing underbrush of Pentagon committees, he warned, "we will wind up with all committees and no work done. Our people have no time to do their work, for fighting committees. We need some protection." Lest anyone misunderstand, Rickover noted an exception: congressional committees are just dandy...
...Sicilian scheme of things, nothing is so important for a girl as her honor-unless perhaps it is the size of her dowry. In the case of Vincenzina d'Urso, a willowy girl of 21 with chestnut hair, the dowry fell short of the expectations of the bridegroom's family. Words were exchanged, doors slammed; Vincenzina's marriage to Enzo d'Agostino, a 21-year-old truck driver, was abruptly called...
...Claimed "the Caribbean is ours." Answered Dominican Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo: Cuba's "aggressors" had better stay out of the Dominican Republic "unless they want to see their beards and brains flying about like butterflies...
Spurring Skutt and Mutual on is the fear among private insurancemen that unless a free-enterprise way is found to insure the U.S. public against loss of income due to disease or accident, socialized medicine will take over. Flying more than 100,000 miles a year over Mutual's far-flung empire, and working six and sometimes seven days a week even when "vacationing" (as he was last week in Florida), Skutt has dedicated himself to proving that socialized medicine is not needed. The campaign is paying off. A few years ago the Federal Trade Commission took out after...