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...others throughout Britain. A crowd of 3,000 spectators jammed the new $6,000,000 Thames-side Royal Festival Hall to get the party going. Other Londoners by the thousands mingled with visitors from overseas to throng the huge, futuristic main exhibition site at South Bank, northwest of dingy Waterloo Station. There, where bombed-out slums once sprawled, they could goggle at the vast "Dome of Discovery," with its 74-inch-lens telescope, at the "Telekinema" with its three-dimensional sound pictures, and the "Eccentrics' Corner" featuring, among other achievements, a hammer guaranteed not to hit the user...
...laid about the field with renewed energy. He had kind words for some-Composer Benjamin Britten, Conductor Sir Malcolm Sargent. But he found the acoustics of the new hall built for the Festival of Britain "harsh" and "unlovely. One felt like rushing out to seek the relative quiet of Waterloo Station." Last week, while Britons raged, he wound up his four-week critical series with a sermon...
...Elysée Palace in Paris, President of the Republic Vincent Auriol drummed his fingers on the desk at which Napoleon I signed his abdication after Waterloo. Intent on a journey, Vincent Auriol was trying to remember if everything, every last detail, had been taken care of. This week he (with his wife Michele) sails on the Ile de France, the first French President to visit...
Guinness outlived the religious persecution and its fame spread. A weary soldier fighting against Napoleon at Waterloo wrote in his diary: "When I [could] take some nourishment, I felt the most extraordinary desire for a glass of Guinness." Doctors wrote in to say that they found Guinness good for everything from "insomnia, neurasthenia, debility and constipation" to an "effective aid for nursing mothers." Guinness tried to get stout admitted into the U.S. during Prohibition as a medicine, but the Treasury Department coldly said...
...Peninsular Campaign was not decisive, but it destroyed several French armies, drained France of much of its trained manpower, softened Napoleon for ultimate defeat in mass land battles (Leipzig and Waterloo) nearer home. It was also no quick war. It took the Duke five years...