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...background information given to us, which was sound and very helpful. Knowing the situation, we have not been too harsh on the embassy, which was just as embarrassed as we were. This penny-wise seminar could have done a lot of harm in any other country than Holland. America should realize that it is terribly hard to catch trout with just bread crumbs, especially when other countries know exactly what trouts like...
...Count me among the ground personnel," said Ernst Hans van der Beugel, 43, when he joined Holland's KLM airline two years ago as deputy president. Since then, Van der Beugel has conquered his nervousness about air travel by making 104 flights "in self-defense," but still insists that "subnormal mechanical intelligence" makes planes a mystery to him. Last week, more interested in his keen economic mind than his airworthiness, KLM moved ex-Civil Servant van der Beugel into the president's chair. Highflying KLM's first-quarter 1961 revenues were a record $36 million...
Ordeal in Camp. Blake's origin was murky enough for any spy. Born in Holland, his father was Egyptian, his mother Dutch. Later she divorced, married an Englishman named Blake, which provided the young son with the proper credentials when he was busy fighting the Nazis as a member of the wartime underground. It was then that he was first recruited by British Intelligence to serve as an agent, later escaping to England...
...onto the airways. The Swiss-owned Radio Mercur began broadcasting to Danish listeners from a freighter off Copenhagen three years ago, now takes in some $700,000 annually, boasts some 300,000 listeners, recently expanded to a bigger, better ship. A year ago, Radio Veronika began pirate broadcasts into Holland from an old German lightship, is still going strong, even tried an abortive beaming into England (they stopped because Dutch listeners complained, wanted all the programs in Dutch...
Exaggerated Portrait. The plight of the migrant workers is bad; but because of its overstatement, Harvest drew howls, especially from Florida's U.S. Senator Spessard L. Holland, whose state was the one visited by Murrow. Harvest of Shame, said Holland, contained at least seven distortions and errors of fact. Holland cited, among others, the example of the 29-year-old Negro woman who told Murrow that she was the mother of 14 and had earned $1 for a full day's work in the fields. The facts were, said Holland, that seven of her children were dead...