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After journeying deep into the Belgian Congo to photograph Dr. Carl K. Becker's hospital, Photographer Terence Spencer and TIME'S Rhodesian stringer Eric Robins were shocked when the publicity-shy Dr. Becker refused to allow any pictures. He finally relented on grounds that the world knows too little about the work of Christian missionaries. TIME'S team attempted to press on him a purely personal donation: their last remaining funds, 2,000 Congo francs, or about $40. Says Stringer Robins: "Dr. Becker put his hand on my shoulder and said kindly but firmly: 'No, please...
Count Joseph de Borchgraved'Altena, chief curator of the Belgian Museum of Art and History: "Until the day that the technical specialists have at their disposal infallible methods, unanimously considered as such also outside their own circle, we wish that the best paintings in our museums no longer be used as guinea pigs...
...hectic jockeying, California's James Hughes missed a turn in his green Lotus, killed Photographer George Thompson of the Tampa Tribune, and then was killed himself as the car flipped onto its back. For six hours the Porsche team of German Cafe Owner Hans Hermann, 31, and veteran Belgian Driver Olivier Gendebien, 36, patiently waited back in the pack. One by one the Ferraris broke down under the strain as the Maserati bellowed to a six-lap lead. But at 6:10 p.m., just as headlights flickered on, Moss eased his low-slung car off the course with...
...African politicians now jostling for position in the soon-to-be-independent Belgian Congo, none makes the Belgians feel more uneasy about the future than cocky Patrice Lumumba, 33. A onetime postal clerk and convicted embezzler, Lumumba was hustled briefly off to jail only four months ago after bloody riots erupted in his home town of Stanleyville, leaving 20 of his fellow Africans dead. Last week the Congo was recovering from a visit that he paid to the Congo's second largest city, Elisabethville...
What God Did. Moving west to Usumbura, in the Belgian-administered trust territory of Ruanda Urundi, Graham spoke to what he said was one of the toughest groups he had ever had to handle-a noisy, restless crowd of 5,000. Many had trudged miles over rough country, slept nights by mountain trails in the rain. Graham gave them one of the most eloquent talks of his African tour, contrasted the majesty of God with the smallness of man. "How could mighty God speak to us little people? God looked down from Heaven, and he wanted to talk...