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...units of Egypt's armed forces, members of the diplomatic corps wearing bright tarbooshes and sashes, and notable sheiks in brocaded turbans and gowns glistening with gold and silver. Last of all came the vengeful members of Nokrashy's Saadist Party, carrying their leaders on their shoulders. "Dam-Bid-Dam" (blood for blood), they shouted, in rhythm with the drums...
Queen's Day. When a chorus of 19,000 children and adults gathered in the Dam to serenade her, 68-year-old Queen Wilhelmina could be seen plainly on the palace balcony, waving her hands like a drum majorette. Later on, at a huge pageant in the Olympic Stadium, the Queen clapped and laughed like a child at the circus. That day was Aug. 31, a day that has been the national holiday of The Netherlands for as long as most Hollanders could remember. "Why can't we celebrate the new Queen's birthday...
...year-old French boy named Jean-Marie LePargneur. He, like his fellow tourists, had spent a year at a U.S. school on an American Field Service scholarship. But he thought he ought to see more of the U.S. than just the school he went to in Beaver Dam, Wis. So did the A.F.S., but it didn't know where the money would come from. Jean-Marie replied, "I feel that anything is possible in the United States." Local civic groups put the students up, and Greyhound lent a bus; the entire cross-country trip for 29 students set A.F.S...
...time has come, Canada warned the democracies of the west last week, to band together to dam the flood of Communism. In the most important statement on Canada's foreign policy since the war, External Affairs Secretary Louis St. Laurent told the House of Commons...
This odd truce is upset by the parachute arrival of Adrian Bullivant, a British officer and even more of a weakling than most weak young men in modern British novels. He has come to instruct the 23rd Corps to blow up a dam in behalf of the Allied armies, but once his foggy mind grasps the impossibility of such a project he settles down to enjoy life...