Word: ghent
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Congressman Wilbur Mills, who starred with stripper Fanne Fox at the Tidal Basin in 1974, is a recent prodigal of drink. Many others preceded him. John Quincy Adams complained mightily about House Speaker Henry Clay's roaring drunks abroad in 1814, when they were there for the Treaty of Ghent, ending...
Last week Prime Minister Wilfried Martens, 45, a Ghent lawyer who has led five coalition governments in three years, began to administer bitter economic medicine to reverse the country's decline. He secured emergency powers for one year to establish economic reforms by royal decree, rather than through parliament. Martens announced an 8.5% devaluation of the franc and, most important, suspended Belgium's system of indexing all wages to inflation. "This is the tenth time in Belgian history that the government has been given special powers by the King," Martens told TIME Correspondent Sandra Burton. "Many...
...York: When one asks me the cities I prefer, I put New York in the ranks of Venice, Ghent, Florence, Jerusalem. The first time I saw New York it was from the sky. How dazzling! I had flown there overnight, and the rising sun had not dissipated the mist of the early morning. Manhattan, gray and golden in its geometric relief, had a full softness. I have returned there five or six times. By plane I have always experienced the same shock, the same impression of entering the future through the window...