Word: baudouine
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...entertained King Baudouin of the Belgians in Washington...
Hands characteristically clasped behind his back, tall, 28-year-old King Baudouin, slim and erect in a plain military uniform, walked to the Speaker's rostrum, bowed to the left and the right, told the joint session of Congress: "I am here to register the solidarity between the people of Belgium and America...
...Baudouin's first state visit to a foreign country since he became King on the abdication of his father, Leopold III, in 1951. A shy, serious bachelor who hates pomp and loves sport (golf, billiards, swimming, skiing, motorcycling), the King said in good English that he came from "a country old enough to have been spoken of proudly by Julius Caesar,"* called America the "land of youth," drew according nods from Associate Justice Felix Frankfurter, 76, and Rhode Island...
...King!") from some of the city's 38,000 residents of Belgian descent. Moving fast, he did Chicago in 20 hours, ended his week in Dallas. With reserve strength needed for a dozen more cities, including visits to Disneyland, SAC headquarters and a ticker-tape parade in Manhattan, Baudouin took a day off, enjoyed a relaxing round of golf, matched grooved swings with Old Master Ben Hogan. No one kept score...
...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...