Word: baudouin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...entertained King Baudouin of the Belgians in Washington...
...their restaurants and homes Belgians fell silent as the youthful voice, how and then shaking slightly with emotion, came over the radio. Later, 4,200 miles away in Léopoldville, blacks and whites heard the same words blaring over the loudspeakers of sound trucks. Lean, spectacled King Baudouin had taken it upon himself to explain in person his government's long-awaited program to give independence to the Congo, that vast land 80 times the size of Belgium, that was once his great granduncle's personal fief. Only a week before, nationalists had been demanding independence...
...Down with Belgium." With cries of "Independence!", "Down with Belgium!" and "Vive Ghana!", the crowd surged down Prince Baudouin Avenue, was soon joined by thousands of spectators who were just then emerging from the football stadium. The swollen mob swept through the city, upset and burned cars, stoned and mauled Europeans, pillaged shops. Bands looted public buildings and invaded mission schools, concentrating their fury on Roman Catholic more than on Protestant schools (though Kasavubu, mission-educated, studied philosophy for three years as a Catholic seminarist). Under orders from their Belgian officers, African police opened fire, and Belgian paratroopers manned...
...King's Visit. By late afternoon, King Baudouin arrived, ventured over a mile into still unshaken galleries to comfort the wives and children of missing workers. On Christmas Day the tremors continued. Even the gallery visited by King Baudouin caved in, and when a rescue-workers' tent set up on the hillside suddenly vanished into the bowels of the earth, all 150 rescue workers were withdrawn. Four mushroom growers were known dead, 14 were missing, and 20 injured. Among the missing: Pierre Heynen in his automobile. His father, Willem, whose initiative had helped bring prosperity to Zichen Zussen...
...stirring are Tintin's wholesome feats -fighting saboteurs, thwarting jewelry thieves, foiling dope smugglers-that both King Baudouin and French Novelist Francoise (A Certain Smile) Sagan are listed as fans. Tintin has made a millionaire of Herge (real name: Georges Remi), 51, who was a schoolboy when he started to draw Tintin's precursor as a boy spy during the German occupation of World...