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Last Sunday, a fine sunny day in Belgium, 5,500,000 voters went apathetically to the polls, called out for the third time in a year to resolve the exasperating question of exiled King Leopold's return to the throne (TIME, July 18 et seq.). After an inconclusive referendum and various futile attempts to form a government that could dispose of the "royal question" one way or another, Regent Prince Charles had called for new parliamentary elections...
Preoccupying Issue. In 1946 Zook was appointed head of the President's Commission on Higher Education, supervised the compiling of its long-range, five-volume report which, among other things, strongly urges federal aid to education (TIME, Dec. 9, 1947 et seq.). When Zook leaves his job to write "a couple of books" and do some work for UNESCO's International Organization of Universities, Arthur Adams is sure to find that federal aid to education is still one of the A.C.E.'s most preoccupying issues. Said President-Designate Adams last week: "I'm not worried about...
Last fall, Doyle went to Indonesia to cover the Dutch exodus and the rise of a new nation in the troubled islands (TIME, Nov. 14 et seq.). He liked the young, eager, inexperienced Republican leaders, thought they had a fair chance of establishing orderly government amid the ruins of colonial rule and the wreckage of war. After several months in Hong Kong and Siam, he went back to Indonesia to see how the new republic was getting...
...Flanagan had not flared into fashion without causing some embarrassment here & there. Victor Recording Star Tex Beneke (TIME, June 2, 1947 et seq.), who had inherited the Glenn Miller mantle in the first place, was hastily trying it on again...
...last week, the U.S. Government had spoken softly in its fight against Britain's restrictions on dollar oil (TIME, Jan. 2 et seq.). Then it decided the time had come to waggle a big financial stick. ECA's petroleum chief, Oscar Bransky, told a House subcommittee that Britain will get no more ECA dollars for expansion of its own oil refining industry until the fight is settled...