Word: belgians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soaring, airy, translucent drum, delicately resting on thin steel columns now getting their final golden lacquer (see color pages). Before it, workmen are completing the paving, preparing a 230-ft.-long reflecting pool to receive its fountains. Electricians are adjusting the lights that will shine on the 130 Belgian apple trees due to burst into bloom at about the day the fair opens. Nearly as vast as the width of Rome's ancient Colosseum, which inspired it, combining dignity, symmetry and an inviting holiday glitter, the pavilion is the finest showcase the U.S. has built abroad at a major...
...director of materiel research at the Watertown Arsenal, and Dushan, the son of an aeronautical engineer with Avco Research Laboratories, are the latest products of the top-notch program of Dr. Albert E. Navez, head of the science department at Newton High School since 1949. Belgian-born Navez, 59, who is also Belgian consul in Boston, starts grooming likely science prospects in junior high school. Says Teacher Navez of Reinier and Dushan: "To them, science is an adventure...
...winter months the famed European soloists still keep coming to the U.S. But in spring and summer, U.S. performers by the hundreds-most of them native-born, some adopted-take off on a music trail that may lead not only to Europe's capitals but to the Belgian Congo and the rim of the Arctic Circle. This summer offers two special magnets for U.S. attractions: the Brussels World's Fair (highlights: the American Ballet Theater, the Philadelphia Orchestra, Louis Armstrong) and Italy's Festival of Two Worlds, organized by Gian Carlo Menotti (three new ballets by Choreographer...
Mink in Hi-Fi (Monique Van Vooren; RCA Victor). Belgian-born Show Girl Van Vooren's voice has the tinny resonance of a sound heard through a drainpipe, and her accent in English is an astonishing blend of Gaul and Georgia Cracker: "Laak a queen in the royal foah postah . . . Ah can face zat lovely place called bed." The combination is disastrous in the slow, sexy register, but in such shouting numbers as Le Rififi and My Man Is Good, V.V. carries the show on muscle alone...
...affiliate. With initial capitalization of $38 million, chiefly from U.S. investors, American Petrofina, which is controlled by the Belgian parent company through its control of the board of directors, bought control of Texas' Panhandle Oil for $25 million in 1956, and in 1957 picked up Texas' American Liberty Oil Co. for about $32 million...