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...Miss Holland won after tattling to the judges that Miss Italy's bathing suit was padded. Last year there were wails of "fix" when a Miss United Kingdom won the contest for the second straight time, and this year's Miss World competition didn't promise to be much more ladylike. When the winner was finally chosen in London's Lyceum Ballroom, green-eyed Miss Malta shrieked: "The judges must be blind!" Not at all, though they did show a certain lack of foresight in picking Miss India, Bombay Medical Student Reita Faria...
Only in retrospect was the 17th century in Holland seen as the age of Rembrandt. At the time, it was the glittering solidity of a moneyed middle class, the robust freedom of a people unburdened by spendthrift - and the plain cockiness of the most successful seafaring nation in Europe that struck the eye. These are characteristics that Frans Hals pictured with precision...
...increased 40% over the last eight years. For the future, Northrop has a contract, which eventually may be worth as much as $500 million, to build fuselages for the Boeing 747 jet. Moreover, foreign sales of the F-5 can only increase. With the expected orders from Belgium and Holland, Northrop hopes that Denmark, Austria and Switzerland will sign up too-just to keep up with the neighbors...
Alexander Orlow, 48, managing director of Holland's Turmac Tobacco Co., has put his love for abstract art to industrial use. "However complicated the operation of a machine may look," he says, "it soon becomes a monotonous routine to a factory worker." Like many another industrial leader, Orlow (pronounced Orlov) figured that boredom was reflected in production figures, so he commissioned 13 painters to produce art for his plant...
Much of the difficulty is due to Dutch labor, traditionally docile (a 1959 court, decision actually-made unions liable for losses caused by a strike). Netherlands unions have recently been flexing their muscles in a big way-taking advantage of a situation in which, like many another European nation, Holland is caught between an expanding economy and an inadequate labor force. Unemployment is a negligible one-half of 1%, 70,000 foreign workers have been imported, and the ratio of available jobs to available men presently stands at 5 to 1. Thus, in 1964, Dutch trade unions negotiated an annual...