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...born 1930) was a few hours old, his maternal grandmother, Princess Ingeborg of Sweden, held him up before a cabinet meeting and said: "See how well-developed he is already! He is almost as big as a Premier!" When Baudouin was four, his grandfather Albert slipped on a mountain crag. The mourning bells for the beloved monarch were among the first impressions in the boy's mind. A year later, his mother, radiantly beautiful Queen Astrid, was killed in an automobile accident on a vacation in Switzerland (the King himself had been driving). Haggard with grief, Leopold returned...
...June 25 issue of TIME, your magazine [refers to] ". . . crag-faced Republican Hugh Roy Cullen (who hoped MacArthur would run for President...
...high point of his trip, although the hospitality was just beginning. The two most militant of his oilmen hosts, crag-faced Republican Hugh Roy Cullen (who hoped MacArthur would run for President) and Glenn McCarthy (who was hell-bent on publicizing his Shamrock Hotel), had been jockeying for weeks for first place in the MacArthur limelight. Houston's Mayor Oscar Holcombe had diplomatically made each chairman of a welcoming committee; between them they had toiled as if they anticipated the second coming of Sam Houston...
...sergeant driving a jeep along the road was hit in the back; his vehicle careened off the road into a bank. Davis and Wright dashed across a green paddy field. When they were safely out of range of the enemy's fire, they looked up at the crag they had just left; it was now occupied by a Communist machine-gun crew...
Davis and Wright watched while other Red units began lobbing white phosphorus shells along the road and lacing it with heavy automatic fire. Then three U.S. tanks rumbled down the road and began blasting away at the same crag lately tenanted by Bob Davis, Jimmy Wright and the green snake...