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From a special panel of three world-renowned lawyers this week came an air-clearing legal pronouncement on the cloudy questions of patriotism, Communism and loyalty among international civil servants of the United Nations. The lawyers-an American, a Briton and a Belgian-unanimously advised U.N. Secretary General Trygve Lie that he not only may, but should, fire from the U.N. Secretariat any persons who are active members of the U.S. Communist Party...
...Belgian Congo last week, the most popular record was a song called Klim Abikisi Mwana. In their beehive huts, natives played it on their ancient, hand-cranked phonographs, clapping their hands gleefully to its calypso-like rhythm. Although the average Bantu laborer makes only about 50? a day, the record was so popular that some 15,000 had already been sold at $1.10 each...
...room, with a bowl of flowers on it. As the commanding point ki the room, the pedestal has been designed to "go back to nature itself, like almost all religions." It is an upright section of a mahogany tree, believed to be from the Belgian Congo, and about 250 years...
Active and Passive. For Dr. Hammon, the progress reported marked a hilltop on a long, hard road. Ohio-born, he took mission training in Pittsburgh and supplemental work in Brussels, then shipped to the Belgian Congo for four years as a medical missionary. Not until he was 28 did he enter Harvard Medical School. Many of his recent years as an epidemiologist have been spent in trying to persuade his colleagues (including those at the National Foundation) that gamma globulin was worth a major trial. Lately, and in the tests themselves, Dr. Hammon has had great help from Philadelphia...
...first mined commercially 40 years ago for its radium content, and for a time the area turned out half the world's supply of radium. (The uranium in the waste tailings from the mines was thrown away.) When richer radium-bearing ores were found in the Belgian Congo, the mines closed. Later, the area became a major producer of vanadium, also from carnotite, a metal used to harden steel. But not until World War II did its biggest boom develop. Tailings from radium and vanadium plants provided uranium for the first atom bombs...