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...Special trains from Paris and Brussels and luggage-laden cars from a dozen countries arrive each Sunday, disgorging 250 middle-class families and turning the village's 60 acres of pine woods and two miles of beach into a microcosm of the Continent-half French and a third Belgian, with Italians, Dutch, Scandinavians, Swiss, Germans and English making up the rest. After two weeks in this Little Europe, TIME Correspondent John Shaw sent the following account of the Continent's mood at midsummer...
...running supplies of Irish bacon and eggs into Britain, dumping the goods into harbors and scattering them on beaches. As supplies of bananas, oranges, grapes and vegetables dwindled all over the United Kingdom, prices rose; some meat cost as much as a shilling (12?) a pound more. Dutch and Belgian truck farmers and shippers complained of losing millions of dollars. The government could, of course, use troops to move goods, and preliminary legal moves were made in this direction. But such an action would sorely test the patience and patriotism of other workers, and Britons remembered uneasily the 1926 General...
...heart of Africa," Joseph Mobutu likes to boast. "When the heart is ailing, the rest of the body suffers. But the heart has resumed its normal beat." By any standard, the Congo's President has reason to be proud of his country's recent progress. When the Belgian Congo received its independence ten years ago this week, it was woefully ill prepared for self-rule; of its 14 million citizens, only 13 were university graduates. On the fifth day of independence, the army rose in mutiny. In the ensuing seven years, the mineral-rich land was ravaged again...
...twisting, 8.4-mile course, Ferrari Driver Ronnie Bucknum allowed that "this race makes Indianapolis look like a Sunday drive. I was plain terrified most of the time." Ferrari, which had eleven entries, lost five cars in the first three hours, three in a single accident. Early the next morning Belgian Driver Jacky Ickx slammed his Ferrari 5125 into a one-lane S-curve in an attempt to overtake Swiss Driver Jo Siffert's front-running Porsche. Ickx lost the gamble, jammed on the brakes, and his racer skidded off the road. He emerged with minor injuries, but a racing...
...export prices go up. Even so. West Germany revalued the mark last year, and Canada is currently letting the price of its dollar rise in relatively free trading. Some European central bankers foresee a series of upward revaluations, in about a year or 18 months, of the Swiss and Belgian francs, the Dutch guilder, the Japanese yen, and probably the German mark again...