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...everyone is making a fair profit, or intended to. The admission-free pavilions of the U.S. and foreign countries were not designed to earn anything except prestige. (But one Belgian baker has become a smash success, turning out diet-demolishing waffles piled high with whipped cream, strawberries and powdered sugar.) Some marginal carny operators on the fair's "Gayway" are described by Fair President Joseph E. Gandy, 58, as "sick cats," since the fair has proven to be more of a family occasion than a peep show...
...Cannot Go Back." Belgian Astronomer Karel Cuypers pointed out that Humanism is the heir of organized religion, and warned the delegates that totalitarian ideologies may take advantage of the decline of organized religion to substitute themselves for God. "The loosening of the grip of religion has created great danger both for religion itself and for Humanism," Cuypers warned. "But we cannot go back. We cannot return to irrationalism and to mysticism without denying ourselves...
Arthur Lyman was born on the island of Kauai, the youngest of eight children of a Hawaiian mother and a father of French, Belgian and Chinese extraction. When Arthur's father, a riveter, lost his eyesight in an accident, the family moved to the island of Oahu and settled in Makiki, a section of Honolulu. Arthur's introduction to music was on a toy marimba. Each day after school, Arthur's father put some old Benny Goodman records on the phonograph and locked Arthur in his room with orders to "play along with the records...
Under normal circumstances, only necessity would draw any Frenchman to Maubeuge (pop. 30,000), a cheerless, Hoboken-like manufacturing center up near the Belgian border, where the moon-or, for that matter, the sun-shines rarely on the River Sambre. But all summer long the roads to Maubeuge have been jammed with moonstruck vacationers, honeymooners and touring rubbernecks, all lured there by what promises to become Europe's next popular hit-a tango called Un Clair de Lune à Maubeuge (Moonlight at Maubeuge...
Most frequently, however, the foreigners observe that U.S. exports last year were only 4% of the gross national product. "The way to make the U.S. economy healthier is to export more capital goods," says Indian Industrialist Shanti Prasad Jain. Agrees a Belgian banker: "The saturation of the U.S. internal market has not inspired a sufficiently aggressive drive to find markets abroad...