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...fuel used-while coal's share dropped to 54%. By 1970, oil imports will raise the total to 48%. The discovery of natural gas in Italy's Po valley, in France's Lacq, and at a newly found field at Groningen in The Netherlands, add a new rival for coal...
...after eleven years of test-drilling, a Dutch oil company jointly owned by Shell and Jersey Standard finally hit natural gas under the muddy reclaimed soil of The Netherlands' north eastern province of Groningen. How big the fields were neither the oilmen nor the government ever felt moved to disclose. But fortnight ago. coming before Parliament to ask authority to tap the fields. Economics Minister Jan De Pous at last let the gas out of the bag. The Netherlands' known reserves of natural gas. he reported, amounted to at least 350 billion cubic meters-more than the combined...
...will not burn up its natural gas to make electric power. Instead, the Dutch will export it to West Germany, Belgium, and possibly Britain, and continue to make their own electricity with imported fuel oil, which is cheaper than gas. By careful management, Dutch planners expect to keep the Groningen field in production for 30 years-or roughly the amount of time they expect it to take before nuclear energy begins to emerge as Europe's main power source...
...Groningen, The Netherlands, High School Student Rinie Tjassens sat with his classmates to take the country's standardized final examination in French. By mistake, Tjassens got an English exam, which he completed and turned in. His teachers went into a panicky huddle because young Tjassens now knew all the questions in the English exam - not due anywhere else in The Netherlands until the next day - and could trade them to his fellow students for the questions to the French exam they had just finished. The pedagogic solution: Tjassens was "quarantined", then took the French exam while the other pupils...
...first striped flag that Tower found bore seven red "stripes of rebellion" (see opposite) for the provinces of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Gelderland, Friesland, Groningen and Overijssel, strongholds of the Reformation. According to Tower, Dutch refugees carried this flag with them to the southern counties of England, where Puritanism was strongest, and around 1574 it began to appear on British ships, sometimes with four red stripes, and sometimes with the red cross of St. George in the canton (the upper corner next to the staff). Contemporary views show that it was carried by some ships against the Spanish Armada...