Word: hollander
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week, Bolivians gave the U.S. an uproarious show of thanks for the aid they have received from Washington-and with disarming candor added that they hoped for more. Henry Holland, touring Assistant Secretary of State, got the wildest, warmest greeting so far on his fact-gathering swing around South America...
Captain Carey McIntosh and Stacy Holmes will start again at left and center half. Denny Little will start at right half. Munro will use Erik Stapper, a native of Holland, to relieve McIntosh and Little, but so far has been unable to find a suitable replacement for Holmes...
...four hours with Ibáñez and his chief ministers, Holland got a restrained rundown on Chile's plight. They asked for no U.S. aid, but Chilean economists later told him that at November's hemisphere conference in Rio they will seek creation of a new development-loan bank and price supports for Latin American raw materials. Holland spoke up for broadened trade and private investments, and departed, soberly, for Bolivia...
Gentle, grey-haired Kees Boeke started out as something of an anarchist and eventually founded a school that should have caused most parents to turn away in dismay. Instead, Schoolmaster Boeke has become one of the most respected and respectable educators in Holland. Last week, as he retired at the age of 70, his school in Bilthoven (near Utrecht) was not only thriving, it boasted such eminent alumnae as the three eldest daughters of Queen Juliana...
...Other Cheek. Boeke's idealism did not stop with money. Back in Britain during World War I, he tried to tell the English to turn the other cheek, soon found himself languishing in jail as a pacifist. In 1918, he was deported to Holland; but by the time he and his family settled in Bilthoven, he had already acquired other convictions. For one thing, he decided that all governments were based on force and that therefore he could have nothing to do with them or their byproducts. He refused to use the railways, telephones or post office; and though...