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...each night when the show ended, the screen quickly returned to TV reality. Scarcely had the voices of the world-juggling statesmen died away when, after station identification, viewers were treated to some such rousing chorus as "My beer is Rheingold, the dry beer! Think of Rheingold whenever you buy beer...
...Europe," a continent free from the Atlantic to the Soviet border; he considers the "little Europe" envisaged by projects like the Schuman Plan a trap on the road to his larger objective. This all-or-nothing attitude makes the Socialist boss a hard man for the West's statesmen to deal with. It also cuts down Schumacher's popularity in western Germany...
Broadcast Death. The first King of Jordan, one of the Arab world's few statesmen, fell to the ground. Five accomplices of the assassin fired into the roof of the mosque, and the crowd of worshipers stampeded. (The microphones of Radio Jerusalem in the mosque were connected, carrying the sound of the shots to thousands who had tuned in to listen to the prayers.) Abdullah's body was trampled in the panicky rush. The accomplices, including a young boy who had been standing by with a reserve clip of ammunition, managed to get away. The murderer, according...
...introduced to the world," did the standard sights for princely visitors (West Point, Annapolis, Princeton, but no nightclubs). Belgian tempers were wearing thinner & thinner over the question of Leopold's return-the Socialists were dead-set against it; the Catholic conservatives were for it. Suddenly, the statesmen seized on the gangling young prince as a key to compromise. Leopold reached an agreement with Socialist Leader Max Buset: he would live in Belgium as King in name only, delegate all constitutional powers to Baudouin until the boy came of age. At that time he would abdicate...
Since then, Baudouin has made 42 major public appearances. Belgium's ministers and statesmen have found him disciplined, earnest and intelligent. Even Socialist Paul-Henri Spaak, his father's implacable political enemy, likes Baudouin, is impressed by his intelligence. More romantic Belgians have seen in the boy's habit of walking with hands folded behind him, in his leanness and in his shyness a clear resemblance to his grandfather Albert...