Word: luxembourg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Millrose Games meet-and its famed Wanamaker Mile-the Madison Square Garden box office was turning away business. The track fans were considerably more excited than 26-year-old Josef Barthel. Luxembourg's 1,500-meter Olympic champion (and record holder) was more concerned with his Harvard postgraduate studies in sanitary engineering. After classes, on the day of the meet, Barthel finally got around to hopping a train in Boston, and reached Manhattan just a few hours before...
Barthol, the Olympic 1500-meter champion from Luxembourg, is a student in the School of Public Health. He will have another chance tonight in the New England A.A.U. Meet in Providence...
...Boston, Olympic 1,5000-meter Champion Josef Barthel of Luxembourg, now a graduate student at Harvard, made an impressive U.S. debut as a miler: 4:10.3 clocking as he beat FBI-Man Fred Wilt...
Working in close harmony through the years, Bech and Dupong raised Luxembourg's affairs to a high degree of stability. Their nation has had no strikes since 1919. Her unemployment seldom soars above a paltry 20 (in a population of 300,000). As Minister of Wine Culture, the job he likes the best, Connoisseur Bech himself has worked a revolution in Luxembourg's vineyards, whose products were once considered the poorest in Europe...
Forced now by the death of his old friend to run Luxembourg virtually alone, Bech's only regret is that he will have less time than ever for golf, fishing, gardening and collecting 18th century French art. "The ceremonies," he says mournfully, "the monuments, the inaugurations, the this, the that...