Word: infant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many of Leopoldville's 20,000 Belgians were not prepared in advance to be much impressed by their young king. "That infant," snapped one sun-helmeted businessman as he watched Baudouin's arrival in a Sabena DC-6 airliner. The colonists had seen too many prim, unsmiling photographs of the bespectacled King, watchfully flanked by his father, ex-King Leopold, and his purposeful stepmother. But a change seemed to have come over shy King Baudouin the moment he left Brussels. He became relaxed, friendly and informal-a man on his own. On the plane, he insisted on getting...
Belgian brains and Bantu muscle have thrust back the forest and checked the dread diseases (yaws, sleeping sickness, malaria) which sapped the Bantu's strength. In some areas, the Congo's infant-mortality rate is down to 60 per 1,000-better than Italy's figure. More than 1,000,000 children attend primary and secondary schools-40% of the school-age population (compared with less than 10% in the French empire...
...Best" is a little too much of the brass musical to be comprehended by children, but adults roar with delight at the Broadway step and brash voices of Maryanne Goldsmith, Sally Shoop, and Anne Adams. Most of the other songs, which were written by Chang, are better suited to infant ears, and Brown redeems himself with the finale--"Flowers Are Dancing...
...captained the cricket team at Colombo's Royal College, went on to study agriculture at Cambridge and rose quickly through the British colonial civil service. At 36, Kotelawala was Minister for Agriculture; at 38, as Minister of Communications, he did a well-remembered job on Ceylon's infant hydroelectric power network. Yet for all these early achievements, he did not become Prime Minister until two years ago, when he was 56. In his first three months in office, Kotelawala proved the quality of his antiCommunism. He 1) ordered the Bank of Ceylon to stop payment on funds...
...corners Kimani at his mountain cave and strangles him. Then he carries Kimani's infant son down to the family farm, hoping that the child may grow up with his own sister's baby - just as he and Kimani had before. In some vague way, suggests Author Ruark, the next generation may find peace; if not, the surviving baby can always serve as an excuse for an equally bloody sequel...