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ATOMIC POWER PLANT, Europe's first completely privately financed nuclear generator, will be built in Belgium by Westinghouse Electric. A syndicate of 20 Belgian firms has signed a $5,000,000 contract with Westinghouse for an 11,500-kw. plant to supply electricity for the Brussels World's Fair...
...March 1954 the police raided a Belgian convent school and found Betty, by now a highly "nervous" girl. They missed Anneke by minutes. But they had enough evidence to make arrests, and a new wave of bitterness swept The Netherlands. Last year Geertruida Van Moorst was sentenced to a year in jail (six months of it suspended) for helping hide the abducted Betty. Last month Geertruida and her sister Elizabeth (in absentia) and four others were brought to trial in Amsterdam for kidnaping...
...boyhood of a hippopotamus probably isn't so bad after all, two animal experts at the University agreed yesterday. An associate curator of Mammalogy and Richard L. Solomon, associate professor of Social Psychology, both took issue with a Belgian zoologist who claims--according to last Sunday's New York Times--that the young male hippo suffers from "a complex of fear and frustration...
Meanwhile, the Assistant Curator of Mammals and Birds of the Bronx Zoo reported that the two young male hippopotamuses there have shown no evidence of fear, frustration, or domination by females--as the Belgian zoologist contends. "Of course the environment may make a difference," Miss Grace Duvall added...
Altogether, according to the Communists' own figures, nearly 1,000,000 were bulldozed out of the city. But recently-apparently at the end of August-the pressure suddenly lifted, and the drive came to a temporary halt. Last week in Hong Kong, three Belgian priests who had left Shanghai a few days previously, reported that the drive "has met so much opposition, created so many difficulties" that it is at a "virtual standstill...