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Moving spirit behind the test was Dr. Hilary Koprowski of Philadelphia's Wistar Institute. To combat epidemics of paralytic polio in the Belgian Congo, he got World Health Organization backing and Congo government funds, arranged a mass trial. Wistar Institute brewed big batches of two strains of polio virus: Chat (named from the initials of the child from whom it was taken), belonging to Type 1, and Fox III (named for a doctor who isolated it from a child victim), belonging to Type 3. Both strains were attenuated, i.e., they were grown in different media (including mice) until they...
...before. While the rebels begged newsmen to "see things as they are today, not as they were last week," and even closed the ransacked royal palace as if to erase the memory of the massacre there, grim tales of the revolt continued to come to light. In Athens a Belgian reported how the body of Nuri's son Sabah was dragged through the streets by a mob waving knives and portraits of Egypt's Nasser. And from his bed in Amman, 36-year-old British-trained General Sadiq Shara recited the gruesome events that took place around...
...Herbert Hoover had also gone to Brussels, in a sense, as an honored house guest of the Belgian people. He went first to Brussels in 1914, a distinguished engineer, as head of the Belgian Relief Commission, which helped save the Belgian people from starvation in World War I. And it was in his role as a house guest even more than in his role of presidential representative that Herbert Hoover was able, as he delivered a formal Fourth of July address in the Grand Auditorium that night, to command attention and respect with a sentence: "I would not be your...
Previews also keeps a careful eye on depreciated slum areas that may go industrial, is gradually increasing its trade in land for industrial purposes. Tysen is negotiating with Belgian government officials about industrial development of the Inga Rapids area of the Congo River, a vast, water-rich slice of the Belgian Congo (TIME, Nov. 25) which engineers fondly describe as "the Ruhr of the 21st century." Tysen will also shop around for three kings interested in plush homes, has hunting licenses for land for a British firm that wants to build 700-room luxury hotels in Lisbon and Vienna...
...years Belgian Archaeologist Edmond Fouss has been excavating Roman and pre-Roman ruins near the village of Buzenol in southern Belgium. Three weeks ago his workers came on a wall of stone blocks apparently taken from a monument built in the 1st or 2nd century A.D. and made into a fortification. Many of them are carved, showing scenes of ancient provincial life. On one of them are a man and woman holding hands. Nude dancers gambol across another...