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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...King's Visit. By late afternoon, King Baudouin arrived, ventured over a mile into still unshaken galleries to comfort the wives and children of missing workers. On Christmas Day the tremors continued. Even the gallery visited by King Baudouin caved in, and when a rescue-workers' tent set up on the hillside suddenly vanished into the bowels of the earth, all 150 rescue workers were withdrawn. Four mushroom growers were known dead, 14 were missing, and 20 injured. Among the missing: Pierre Heynen in his automobile. His father, Willem, whose initiative had helped bring prosperity to Zichen Zussen...
...dawned amid economic thunderheads rolling in from the South, the Toronto Star grimly warned Canadians: "Major recession has already set in. The bases for confidence in the immediate future are flimsy." At first reading there was indeed cause for worry. By tradition Canada follows the U.S. economy, and signs seemed to indicate that she would follow the U.S. into recession. Factories were on short time, unemployment was climbing toward a postwar peak, and the stock market was a growling bear, with prices near the lowest levels in a year...
...book-loving Soviet public, reported Moscow radio proudly, had gobbled up every copy of a new edition of the works of Mark Twain. Included in the twelve-volume set, which will be published over the next three years: unnamed, unspecified "anti-imperialist pamphlets," not found, claimed the broadcast, in the decadent, bourgeois editions published by Twain's countrymen...
...college. But he insisted from the start that a Mizzou journalism student devote some 75% of his curriculum to the liberal arts and sciences, a requirement still in effect and now the standard for most schools. To give his students practical training, Newsman Williams mortgaged his house, set up the Columbia Missourian, a daily largely written and edited by students under faculty supervision, which competes in Columbia (pop. 45,000) with the Tribune, trails its opposition in paid circulation (4,062 v. 10,120) but not in zeal...
Scherchen displayed a conducting technique as precise and economical as the motions of a tailor threading a needle. In the climactic passages, he laid into his work with a vigor that set his white hair flopping. The result was a finely tooled performance, full of the nuances and dynamics that are Scherchen's stamp...