Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Along the front line, it was a week of patrol actions, probing attacks and heavy U.N. air strikes against the Reds' buildup areas and communications. In the wild mountains of Korea's east coast, 60 miles south of Wonsan, U.N. patrols moved in on Kosong (reportedly the eastern anchor of the U.N.'s proposed cease-fire buffer zone), while a destroyer-escort pounded the town from offshore. Further south and west, near Yanggu, U.N. infantrymen rested briefly after a savage, five-day fight for a 1.500-foot Red stronghold which Americans nicknamed "Fool Mountain...
...Mountain Dance & Folk Festival (Sat. 2:30 p.m., ABC). Twenty-fourth annual hoedown, from Asheville...
Casual is the word for Nashville's principal contribution to contemporary U.S. culture. Ever since 1925, when Grand Ole Opry got started, young men with guitars have been lounging into town to seek their fortunes on the sprawling, leisurely 4½hour broadcast of mountain and prairie specialties. Among those who found fame: Opry Alumni Eddy Arnold, Ernest Tubb, Red Foley and Roy Acuff, all of whom now boast six-figure annual incomes. Citified publishers and record companies-realizing that in the wide-open spaces of the U.S. a good barnyard ballad can outsell a bistro blues every time...
Roman Catholic Flemings-need a King as a symbol of unity. Belgium's young dynasty, just over a century old, has usually known its place. Baudouin's grandfather, mountain-climbing King Albert, became Europe's best-loved monarch (in October 1918, in trench coat and battered helmet, Albert surprised the stout burghers of Ostend as the first allied soldier to enter that Belgian city on the heels of the fleeing Germans). But he never forgot the lesson his autocratic grandfather and predecessor Leopold I had learned through hard experience: in Belgium, a King is supposed to govern...
...Baudouin (born 1930) was a few hours old, his maternal grandmother, Princess Ingeborg of Sweden, held him up before a cabinet meeting and said: "See how well-developed he is already! He is almost as big as a Premier!" When Baudouin was four, his grandfather Albert slipped on a mountain crag. The mourning bells for the beloved monarch were among the first impressions in the boy's mind. A year later, his mother, radiantly beautiful Queen Astrid, was killed in an automobile accident on a vacation in Switzerland (the King himself had been driving). Haggard with grief, Leopold returned...