Word: baudouine
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...Dispatched former G.O.P. National Chairman Len Hall, now a New York gubernatorial hopeful, to the Brussels World's Fair as presidential representative to Host King Baudouin of the Belgians...
...Arabs, Moroccans, Tunisians and Spaniards) were not ready on opening day. In the U.S. pavilion one entire exhibit was torn out for being unready. In most pavilions there were similar last-minute crises. But after workmen had performed a herculean overnight cleanup job, Belgium's tall, shy King Baudouin, 27, formally opened the first world's fair anywhere since New York's in 1939. Under grey skies and an umbrella of 50 Belgian air force jets, the bespectacled Baudouin proclaimed in French and Flemish: "The aim of this World's Fair is to create an atmosphere...
...Belgian authorities heard rumor of a pending sale, called on the Merode family, which had owned it for two generations, to stop the transaction. When it was pointed out that the altarpiece had been willed to the daughter of Count Guillaume d'Henricourt de Grünne. King Baudouin himself intervened in an effort to keep the work in Belgium. What no one told the King was that Countess Jeanne de Grünne, 28, had long since given up title to the famous work...
...have never had the racial clashes or race hate that flame in apartheid-cursed South Africa or in British-ruled Kenya. In fact, the only rioting in recent years occurred last summer after a badly refereed soccer game between white and black teams in Leopoldville's big King Baudouin Stadium. Since then, interrace soccer has been banned...
Born. To Princess Josephine Charlotte, 29, sister of King Baudouin of Belgium, and Prince Jean, 36, heir apparent to his mother, Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg: twins, their second son and second daughter; in Betzdorf Castle, Luxembourg. Names: Jean Felix Marie Guillaume, Margaretha Antonia Marie Felicite. Weight: each...