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...member of the commission during its entire 14 years, Mansholt grew up among the dour farmer folk of the northern Dutch province of Groningen, and during World War II became a central figure in the Resistance. Tapped after the war to become Minister of Agriculture, he tired of domestic politics in the 1950s, and in 1958 was sent to Brussels as The Netherlands' member of the European Commission. There he refined "the Mansholt Plan" to phase out Europe's tiny farms and replace them with larger, more efficient units; a modified version of his proposal was passed...
Superb Work. Such grand, galactic thoughts come easily these days to the man who has been puzzling over the stars ever since he was twelve and his amateur astronomer uncle gave him a look through a telescope. Before he finished high school in the Dutch town of Groningen, where he was born, he had become so expert a student of the skies that his teacher exchanged chairs with him during astronomy lessons and allowed him to address the class. "You know that stuff better than I do," the teacher admitted...
...time young Maarten had enrolled at the University of Groningen, where he studied mathematics, physics and astronomy, his dedication to astronomy had begun to alarm his father, a government accountant. "How can you earn your daily bread by looking at the stars?", the elder Schmidt asked repeatedly. He was placated only by a direct appeal from University Astronomy Professor Adriaan Blaauw, who saw in the eager young student the makings of an able professional. Upon graduation in 1949, Schmidt was offered a job at the University of Leiden Observatory as an assistant to Astronomer Jan Hendrik Oort, who is famous...
HANS WYNBERG Groningen, The Netherlands...
Continental's find is the third such discovery in as many months in the British sector of the North Sea. Since 1959, when Esso and Shell discovered the mammoth Groningen gas field on the Dutch coastal plain, fuel-needy Europeans-and an international array of ambitious oilmen-have suspected that the world's biggest bubble of natural gas may lie beneath the North Sea. Except for one inconclusive well drilled off The Netherlands last year, that dream was long based on geological speculation and nurtured largely by faith...