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...beer-bibbing Belgians, whose per-capita inflow of 34.3 gallons is the world's highest, who put a foamy head on a disheartening summer. They scheduled a National Beer Festival at the Château de Fraiture in Liège province, but before the guzzling could even get started, the chateau burned down, lock, stock and beer barrels...
...fears about its investments in Latin America, other investors have plenty. Political instability and chronic inflation have frightened U.S. investors to the point that in the first nine months of 1962 there was a $37 million net withdrawal of private U.S. capital v. a $144 million net inflow...
Widener Library is also experiencing a greater inflow of students and outflow of books than in previous years. Reporting a ten per cent increase in circulation over last year, John A. Harrison, circulation librarian, is asking for additional help at the check-out desk...
...Flemings now have the numerical edge-5,250,000 to 4,000,000-a majority in Parliament, a Flemish Prime Minister and, thanks to a postwar inflow of U.S. firms to capitalize on Flanders' cheap, ample labor, a glossy sheen of wellbeing. Wallonia, meanwhile, is practically a depressed area, dotted with played-out coal mines and plagued with rising unemployment. But the Flemings still see all sorts of injustices, complain, for instance, that they have only 13 of Belgium's 83 diplomatic jobs abroad. While Brussels is officially bilingual from its street signs down to its liquor labels...
...road traffic was not going into London but the other way-to beaches, picnic grounds and golf courses. For every brave Briton who had decided to struggle to work, it seemed that at least two simply took the day off. The City of London had one-third its normal inflow of 1,500,000 people. Shops were half empty. Autos zipped into town at 60 m.p.h.. buses glided smoothly, and Transport Minister Marples found the way clear when he bicycled to work. For the striking railwaymen who wanted to cause maximum discomfort, the whole thing proved a flop...