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...Draft periods of other NATO countries: Canada: no draft, volunteers only; Luxembourg and Norway: 12 months; Denmark, France, Italy and Portugal: 18; The Netherlands: 20; Greece, Turkey, the United Kingdom...
Perle Mesta, once famed for her Washington parties, wrote in This Week magazine: "After the three years I have served as Minister to Luxembourg, with world conditions as they are, I could never return to the party world of Washington . . . If I ever give Washington parties again, they will be different in purpose and spirit...
...sharp spired city of Luxembourg (pop. 65,000), Sunday-suited burghers, many of them heavy workers from the Grand Duchy's steel mills, stolidly watched the nine-man High Authority of the European Coal-Steel Community take charge of an industrial colossus which will outproduce Russia in steel and rival her in coal. The Schuman Plan had become fact, and with it the ceiling imposed by the Allies on Ruhr steel production was finally lifted. Behind a battery of red gladioli in Luxembourg's City Hall, the men whose job it will be to sweep away Western Europe...
ALBERT WEHRER, 57, Luxembourg minister to France...
...first: in 1920, also by an Annapolis crew), by a length and a quarter over Russia. ¶ Harrison Dillard, ex-Baldwin-Wallace College hurdler, who skimmed the 110-meter hurdles in an Olympic record time of 13.7 sec., closely trailed by U.S. Teammates Jack Davis and Arthur Barnard. -I Luxembourg's Joseph Barthel, who ran the 1,500-meter "metric mile" in 3 min. 45-2 sec., an Olympic record equaled by the silver medalist, Occidental College's Bob McMillen, clocked in the same time. The victory was tiny Luxembourg's first in Olympic history...