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...prospect of a domestic supply of uranium, now mostly imported from Canada and the Belgian Congo, was looking up. This week Geologist Robert J. Wright of the Atomic Energy Commission told a Los Angeles meeting of the American Institute of Mining & Metallurgical Engineers that several kinds of uranium ore are being mined in the U.S. on a large scale. More important for the nation's future, said Dr. Wright, are the traces of pitchblende, the richest uranium ore, that have been found. There is an excellent chance, he believes, that deeper drilling will uncover more...
...Belgium last week, pro-government La Libre Belgique said that it did not advocate censorship. But it thought that the time had come to warn foreign correspondents that they had been "abusing Belgian hospitality" by their "distorted" coverage of the recent political campaign. In Britain and France, indirect efforts have been made to place official restraints on the press, but newspapers have resisted them. A year after the proposal by Britain's Royal Commission on the Press that a body of press and public members be set up to guard against journalistic "excesses" (TIME, July 11), Britain...
...Pundit Ilya Ehrenburg, a recent visitor to Brussels, indignantly reported catching a man in a café in the act of ordering Coke for himself and his innocent child. In vain, Ehrenburg warned: "A person who starts drinking Coca-Cola soon finds himself turning to other sinister habits." Belgian bottling plants were hard put to keep up with demand...
...Italo is not the only child whose life has been made happier for having his picture in TIME. In June, 1947 your Medicine department published one of our Foster Parents' photographs of a little Belgian girl, Maria Michiels, who had lost an eye and suffered severe injuries when a V-2 hit her home in Antwerp. A veteran of the 13th Port, an American Army unit which operated Antwerp's port after the invasion, saw the picture in TIME and thought that he recognized the girl. He made some inquiries and established the fact that she was indeed...
...agreed, if he were allowed to return to Brussels, to transfer the throne temporarily to his son Prince Baudouin. This was acceptable to anti-Leopoldist Socialists and Liberals, if Leopold would guarantee not to interfere with Baudouin's regency. Some suggested that the monarch might stay in the Belgian countryside and devote himself to golf; others proposed the Congo. Then from Switzerland Leopold himself cut in huffily: "It is not necessary that I be asked for guarantees, which can add nothing to the value of my word...