Word: baudouine
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...dream was nine years abuilding. The site, across from King Baudouin's royal palace, was select but far too small. To make room, 17 lots had to be bought, including one occupied by a new office building. Lambert agreed with city planners that the new palazzo should meld with the old-world architecture of the Palais Royale-yet he wanted a contemporary design. Finally, recalling his delight at seeing Manhattan's Lever House in 1952, the Yale-educated baron chose the U.S. firm of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, whose partner in charge of design, Gordon Bunshaft, revolutionized...
...Dutch-speaking Flemings and French-speaking Walloons that outsiders sometimes wonder how the country stays together at all. Last week one of the longest Cabinet crises in Belgian history (65 days) ended when Pierre Harmel, 54, wearily patched together a government and received the seal of office from King Baudouin...
...Hotelman Conrad Hilton, 77, in Santa Monica's St. John's Hospital with a respiratory infection; Heiress Barbara Mutton, 52, in San Francisco's Presbyterian Medical Center with an intestinal ailment; Belgium's King Baudouin, 34, in the royal palace in Brussels, suffering from infectious hepatitis; Richard Cardinal Cushing, 69, in Boston's St. Elizabeth's Hospital, following surgery for removal of a portion of his intestines; David Oman McKay, 91, President, Prophet and Seer of 2,000,000 Mormons, in Salt Lake City's Latter-day Saints' Hospital for the third...
Even royalty has been affected by the wage-price spiral. Though Belgium's King Baudouin and Queen Fabiola cut back their palace staff from 302 to 188, wages have risen so much that the King has been spending almost all his income on upkeep. At his request. Parliament last week voted him a $160,000 raise in salary to $1,000,000 a year. To make sure that he will not be caught in such straits again, Parliament also decreed that Baudouin's wages, like those of every Belgian union man, will henceforth include an automatic cost...
...Longer Monkeys. Amid all this mumbo jumbo, the real Lumumba has been almost forgotten. He was, of course, a violent, often eloquent anticolonialist, and an infectiously fanatic orator. At the 1960 independence ceremony, he seized the microphone to tell Belgium's King Baudouin that "from today, we are no longer your monkeys." He was also the first Congolese politician to think beyond tribal boundaries, the founder (in 1959) of the Congo's first semi-national political movement, its first real pan-African nationalist-and its first Prime Minister. But at the time of his death, most...