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...Another road, new to the American tourist, is the road through the town of Bastogne, along the Luxembourg border and south into France. Every kilometer for at least an hour's drive along this route stands a graceful stone marker, about four feet high, with crossed Belgian and American flags carved on it and the simple legend...
...Belgian ship Scaldis was due to sail from Antwerp last week. The important cargo was the "bathyscaphe" designed by Professor Auguste ("Captain Nemo") Piccard, 64, of balloon fame.* In the Gulf of Guinea, West Africa, the bathyscaphe will be lowered overboard with the professor and his coadventurer, Professor Max Cosyns, inside. Piccard expects to descend to a depth of 2½ miles...
...Remarkable symbolism, that," observed Alexandre Verdelis, Greek delegate to OEEC, who watched Gaillard. "He collects fragments of English 'Players,' French 'Gauloises,' American 'Chesterfields,' sweet Turkish and powdery Belgian cigarettes. He puts them all together and rolls a smoke that is undoubtedly harmonious...
Last May the Belgian government submitted an account of its stewardship of Ruanda-Urundi to the U.N. Trusteeship Council. The council last week issued its "report on the report," finding much amiss about the way the Belgians directed the Batutsi 5% of the population to rule the Bahutu 94%.* The Russians, who check up on everybody, refused to sign the report. The Russians thought the council was not sufficiently critical of the Belgians...
...Belgians select the most promising young men (not necessarily the best high jumpers) and give them a nine-year course of training in the .Groupe Scolaire at Astrida in Ruanda. The Catholic priests who run the Groupe call the first four years of the course "the rolling mill." During this period the aristocratic young giants are subjected to constant surveillance and iron discipline, including very hard beds. "The rolling mill" squeezes out two-thirds of the students and the priests do not want the two-thirds who fail to go back to their villages demanding soft beds. The successful third...