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Died. Count Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck, 86, Belgian Nobel Prizewinning (1911) litterateur, best-known for his allegorical fantasy, The Blue Bird (1909); of a heart attack; in Nice, France (see INTERNATIONAL...
Above & Beyond the Call. In New Orleans, Carl Bendzus was charged by federal agents with illegally wearing the Congressional Medal of Honor, Distinguished Service Medal, Silver Star, Purple Heart, Victoria Cross, British Military Medal, British Military Cross, Mons Star Medal, Victory Medal, Belgian Croix de Guerre, Belgian Order of the Crown, French Legion of Honor and half a dozen lesser decorations...
...Western Oil & Gas Association. Said S.R.I.'s Paul L. Magill: elemental sulphur (i.e., not in compounds) might be to blame for eye irritation. So might some aldehydes. Another theory offered to the chemists: organic peroxides might be the tear-jerking villains. Dr. Lucien Dau-trebande, a Belgian smog expert, also working at S.R.I, with Oil & Gas funds, said that an eye irritant would be at least twice as irritating if suspended in oil droplets. And there was no doubt that Los Angeles' smog contained...
They had launched the Intra-European Payments plan, also known as "the little EGA." This is an important financial device which has had marked success loosening log jams in European trade. The Italians, for example, cannot buy goods from Belgium because they lack Belgian currency. The Belgians, therefore, agree to grant the Italians the necessary exchange to buy Belgian goods. Then EGA in Washington reimburses the Belgians with an equivalent grant in ECAid. Thus the U.S. dollar works "twice"-for the Belgians, and through them for the Italians. This device has released some 810 million U.S. dollars of intra-European...
Whether or not modern technology can turn areas that geography, biology, or human prejudice has kept backward into prosperous lands was the debate topic for a sextet of men familiar with such underdeveloped regions as the Belgian Congo, and the Punjab...