Word: belgians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Northern Rhodesia, our Johannesburg Correspondent Edward Hughes was heading home last week after bouncing some 5,000 miles through Mozambique, the Rhodesias and into the Belgian Congo in a battered Mercury. He stopped off in Lusaka (pop. 60,000) to listen to the black natives' saucepan radio and visit the unique Central African Broadcasting Station (see RADIO & TV). Then he rolled in a cloud of dust 530 miles along the corrugated dirt track, called the Great North Road, to Chinsali, a district commissioner's headquarters. There he switched to a bicycle and pedaled down a goat path through...
...young is young? Truman did not say, except to reaffirm that he, at 72, knows his own "running-for-office days are over." Two days later, in Brussels, he made it clear that he considers Dwight D. Eisenhower young enough at 65 to run for reelection. Asked by a Belgian newsman whether the Democrats would welcome a decision by Ike to quit the race because of poor health, Harry replied: "I am hopeful that President Eisenhower's health will be good and will make him able to enter the presidential race." While in Brussels, Truman and wife Bess also...
...Amazing Jean "Toots" Thielemans (Columbia). Jazz on the harmonica. Belgian Thielemans, who learned his trade despite the Nazi jazz ban, now has the lively support of several mellow combos. He swings high, free and with surprising feeling, not to mention expert marksmanship. He cannot, however, resist an occasional gypsy switch...
...Exile." "I am living the life of a monk," he wrote exultantly from Belgium. "I have a bed which is about a hand's-breadth wide . . ." From his narrow couch, Hugo fled on to the Channel Islands, after leaving most of his sizable fortune in investments in a Belgian bank and accepting from the Belgian Prime Minister "an offer of shirts" to soften the road of poverty...
...delegates read their reports to an international congress on leprosy sponsored by the Knights of Malta.* In Burma there were 2,000 known leprosy cases in 1951; now there are 30,000. In the Belgian Congo there are now 250,000 known leprosy victims, compared to only 60,000 a few years ago. In French Equatorial Africa there were 37,508 known cases in 1951; now there...