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...Asked Congress to approve an "agreement for cooperation" between the U.S. and the Euratom nations (France, Italy, Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg) that offers U.S. financial aid, designs for five to seven nuclear reactors, engineers and scientists and a 20-year supply of reasonably priced U 235 for a new $350 million European power grid that will generate a million kilowatts of power. Since Europe needs cheap nuclear power more than the hydroelectric rich U.S., Ike believes the U.S. can use Euratom experience to study problems of nuclear-power development, will benefit even more because Euratom will inevitably pull European...
...Berlin, New York and Chicago while still suspect in Paris, the impressionists fought for Louvre recognition under the leadership of Claude Monet, who spearheaded a subscription movement to buy Manet's famed nude Olympia for the nation. Accepted in 1890 after heated argument, Olympia was hung in the Luxembourg Palace, then the waiting room for the main Louvre collection. In 1894 the painter Gustave Caillebotte bequeathed the nation 67 prize impressionist paintings, had 38 grudgingly accepted for the Luxembourg, including Renoir's Le Moulin de la Galette, Pissarro's Red Roofs. By 1911, opinion had swung round...
Marble from Melos. The Louvre treasures that visitors see today represent the titanic effort made to recoup from the post-Waterloo low point. Rubens paintings from the Luxembourg palace were brought in to fill the gaps; French archaeologists sent back to the Louvre whole collections of Egyptian and Assyrian art. In 1820 the French Ambassador to Turkey was able to pick up five fragments of marble on the island of Melos for 1,200-1,500 francs ($230-$285). Pieced together, they became the Louvre's famed Venus de Milo...
...Harvard's plan for raising $82,500,000 (already in the kitty: $35 million). The broadcast was coast to coast in the U.S. on CBS, and-on the theory that the sun never sets on Harvard alumni-abroad on the armed forces radio network. Radio Luxembourg, the Voice of America, and various outlets in the Orient. But the nation's wealthiest educational institution was addressing an audience far larger than its own alumni. Manhattan Banker Alexander White, head Harvard fund raiser, stated the issue clearly: "Every American college is in serious financial trouble. Harvard is best...
...young contestant from Paris was a chemistry whiz. Hot as a Bunsen burner, Pierre Poitrinal, 17, answered question after question on Radio Luxembourg's Quitte ou Double, the Gallic Double or Nothing that is Europe's most popular French-language radio quiz. When he was through talking of ekasilicon and the halides of uranium a fortnight ago, Pierre had won 2,048,000 francs ($4,876.19) and was still going strong...