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Slimmed down after a nine-week diet of "baked beans, canned asparagus and Scotch whisky" while filming The African Queen in the Belgian Congo, Cinemactor Humphrey Bogart, with his wife Lauren Bacall and 2½-year-old son Stephen, arrived in Manhattan. Said Bogie: "Africa is a good place to stay away from, but I suppose that statement will burn up all the Africans." Before leaving for Hollywood, he went to a ball game, where he met another baseball fan, Douglas MacArthur. The dialogue, said Bogart, went something like this: "The general said: 'Hear you had a pretty rough...
Last month a twelve-man Belgian-French cave-exploring team went back to Basses-Pyrénées, made the long, hard climb from Licq-Athérey to Lépineux's discovery. They brought climbing ladders, cement to secure loose rock in the side of the chimney, and a windlass to lower the explorers into the unknown. Expedition Chief Max Cosyns, a Belgian nuclear physicist who goes after spelunking records on the side, estimated the chimney's depth by timing the echo from rocks that ricocheted off the limestone walls. The explorers were looking...
...Mynheer von Stoendyck, a Belgian inventor whose perfect command of the English language is simply not credited by his British hostess. She helpfully translates everything that is said to him into broken English...
Last spring, France's René Pleven, then Premier, offered a compromise: a European army of which German contingents larger than "combat teams" could be a part. For five months French, West German, Italian, Belgian and Luxembourg delegates (the British, Dutch and Scandinavians hung back) have been meeting in Paris, trying to transform the Pleven plan into reality...
Leopold's major fault was perhaps that he wanted too much to be a King. As constitutional monarch of the Belgians, he had adamantly, and often bravely, refused to take a back seat while his ministers ran the country. His willfulness had led him into many dark hours, the darkest of which was his surrender of the Belgian army to Hitler in 1940. In recent years, Leopold's stubborn refusal to give up the throne of which more than half his people felt he was no longer worthy deeply rent Belgium...