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...Netherlands, which takes its welfare-state benefits seriously, a conscientious civil servant in the village of Diepenveen (pop. 4,018) decided to go out and inform a local farm hand named Hendrik Bally in person that the government, now that he had turned 65, would henceforth pay him a pension of 81 guilders ($21.31) a month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: The Hired Man | 2/22/1960 | See Source »

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