Word: baudouin
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...recent cartoon in a Belgian newspaper showed King Baudouin eagerly clasping the hand of Bicycle Racer Eddy Merckx. In the surrounding crowd, one spectator is seen asking a companion: "Hey, who's that fellow shaking hands with Eddy...
...fourth time-but few Finns believe him. The President takes pride in his working friendship with the Kremlin leadership. Many of its members belong to his "Helsinki Club," a select group of statesmen who have visited Helsinki and shared a sauna with him; Western members include Dean Rusk, King Baudouin of the Belgians and Sweden's Ex-Premier Tage Erlander. Finland's cabinet has its own version of the club, meeting regularly in the sauna at Kesaranta, the Premier's official residence, to combine parboiling and policymaking. Within the bounds of Finland's "bridge building" neutralism...
...megawatt dam, will be finished by 1972. Even the interior city of Kisangani, formerly Stanleyville, which suffered terrible damage during the Simba rebellion of 1964-65, is returning to life. The town glitters with a coat of fresh paint in honor of a visit by Belgium's King Baudouin, who arrived in the Congo for the anniversary...
...first leg of the 10,500-mile journey ended at Brussels International Airport, where Nixon became the first U.S. President to visit Belgium since Woodrow Wilson arrived triumphantly in 1919 after negotiating the Treaty of Versailles. The President was met by Belgium's young King Baudouin, who led him down a 200-yd. red carpet to review a guard of honor. Nixon greeted NATO Secretary-General Manlio Brosio among the potted palms and pink azaleas of the royal tent, and then, with the King at his side, drove to the Palais Royale de Bruxelles...
...industrial complex. The main route into the city from Zaventem airport passes through what is known locally as "Little Texas"?an unmistakably American creation that includes a new Esso research center as well as plants built by IBM and Honeywell. Nixon will enter the city with King Baudouin. On the President's first-night Brussels schedule were conferences at the Palais Royale de Bruxelles with Belgian Premier Gaston Eyskens and Foreign Minister Pierre Harmel...