Word: luxembourgers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
...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...
...lady diplomats were not howling oratorical successes. Mrs. Perle Mesta, party-giving U.S. envoy to Luxembourg, called her speech "Women as Partners." She began by saying: "This is one of the most exciting moments of my life," a line which might have been lifted straight from Call Me Madam, a musical comedy about her. Sample cliches from her address : "It is a great thing to be an American woman ... In America today women are a tremendous force." Mrs. Mesta wore a chic black dress and liberal strands of pearls and looked, withal, as though she had just come in from...
...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...