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Introduction to the World. Baudouin was growing up. In 1948, he accompanied his father on a trip to the U.S. "to be 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...
...results are obvious. The course catalogue has grown thicker; faculty research projects have boomed; but the men ready and willing to give tutorial have been spread thinner and thinner...
...Salle's new system is to set prices according to a manufacturer's pre-Korean level, add to them only the actual increases in material costs up to December 31, the labor costs up to March 15. But Di Salle is determined to make businessmen take thinner profit margins and share part of the increase in costs. He will not allow them to toss in increases in the costs of sales, advertising, research, overtime...
...Thin Red Line of Heroes gets thinner every year. Stan Musial, Enos Slaughter, Al Schoendienst, and Joe Garagiela are the backbone of a fine club, but the rest is unconvincing...
There is no evidence that Britons' hearts have grown any fainter during their years of meat famine and general austerity, but it seems to be a fact that their blood is running thinner. Last week an officer of the Greater London Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service announced that tests on blood donors in 1950 had revealed a hemoglobin (oxygen-carrying red pigment) level several points below the average in 1939. As a result, the Red Cross lowered its minimum hemoglobin standard for new donors from...