Word: holland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Filing-Cabinet Frenchies. After passage of the new gaming act. Crockford's was bought by an Old Harrovian entrepreneur, blond, beefy Tim Holland. 35, who brags of learning bridge when he was nine. He transformed the club's venerable second floor with $80,000 worth of silk damask wall coverings and 18th century candelabra, imported eight French croupiers and French-made plastic chips representing $1,500,000 (highest chip: $2,800) for four chemmy and eight poker tables. In return for a cut of the take. Businessman Holland persuaded foxy old Isidor Abbecassis. Le Touquet's casino...
...skintight red dress left the chemmy table one morning last week after dropping $5,600, she yawned: "Lovely evening, really." Lured by cut-rate Lucullan food (price of dinner: $2.50) and free breakfast with champagne, more than 1,200 top-drawer Britons have joined the club, which Tim Holland modestly calls a "gold mine." Last week, after his casino had been running only ten days. Crocky's new master had already earned the Biblical encomium pinned on Fishmonger Crockford in the 19th century: "He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he. hath sent empty away...
...mind-boggling maneuver to avoid double taxation (from Britain and Holland), the ex-competitors set up Unilever Ltd. and Unilever N.V. (for Naamlooze Venootschap, or limited liability) as two separate holding companies that divide Unilever's assets but pool its profits. Each has a board of directors that controls the board of the other. This tail-chasing organizational scheme works only because the same men are on each board. Although Unilever Ltd. Chairman George Cole, 55, and Unilever N.V. Chairman Frederik Jan Tempel, 61, run the company from adjoining offices. Cole-a husky. low-key executive who started...
Also addressing the morning session college admissions problems were B. Alden Thresher, Director of Admissions M.I.T., and Bertram H. Holland, headmaster of Brookline High School...
When the war started, Visser 't Hooft discovered that the smuggling of refugees to freedom combined naturally with the smuggling of information in and out of Holland for the Dutch government-in-exile in London. The apparatus' agents were equipped with microfilm in pens and with clandestine short-wave radio. His two sons remember with displeasure the furtive characters who were constantly turning up at the house, in Geneva; when one arrived, the children were always sent out of the living room-which during the war was the only heated room in the house. In those days...