Word: hollande
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...much inhumanity can a man bear to inflict on his fellow men before his conscience calls a halt? The answer to this question is the substance of a harrowing little novel from Holland that combines the impact of a documentary film with the prodding of a remorseless sermon. The scene is Westerbork, a concentration camp in occupied Holland, from which Jews were sent on to Auschwitz, Sobibor and other extermination centers in Eastern Europe. The book's real heroes and villains are Jews, while the Nazis are seen only as almost impersonal agents of evil...
...North Korea, flies 58,000 route miles v. 64,000 for Pan American World Airways, the longest U.S. flag carrier. Last month Aeroflot won Britain's approval for flights to London, is expected to start service next fall. Now Aeroflot is dickering for landing rights in France and Holland, is expected to go after rights in the U.S. as soon as it gets enough long-range jets to fly from Moscow to New York, probably within the year...
...added that his overall condition was not so serious as might be inferred from newspaper reports. Barghoorn telegrammed that he would be delayed in his return to Cambridge until about the third week in February. Barghoorn was on leave for the fall term and was scheduled to return from Holland today...
Center of the storm was a 42-year-old Arkansan, Dr. Neil Holland Sullenberger, 1939 graduate of the University of Arkansas' School of Medicine, who began to specialize in surgery as soon as he finished his Army stint. He won certification by the American Board of Surgery, and recognition as a skilled and sometimes daring operator. But Dr. Sullenberger had a knack for not getting along with people. In 1950 he was asked to leave the University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor after an assault-and-battery charge against him (the verdict: not guilty). That same year...
...point that the treacherous saboteur has done his foul work: water is trickling through the dike. What to do? The hole is too large to be plugged by a finger, and, anyway, that technique has already been used by the capitalistic Dutch boy who saved the plutocratic fields of Holland from the sea. Chin Lan Tse is resourceful: she applies her maidenly breast to the breach and stoppers it. She almost freezes to death, but "her heart burns like fire," sustaining her until rescue comes...