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Bush Belsen. To the first impact of Europe upon Australia, Moorehead gives a poignancy lacking in other accounts. If Cook embodied the best virtues-manly and intellectual-of the 18th century, and the Polynesians of the Central Pacific composed the most gracious of primitive societies, New Holland (as Australia was then called) presented a contrary confrontation: primitive man at his lowest, civilized man at his worst...
...NATO presence now in France is variously estimated at from $300 million to more than $1 billion. Alternate port and supply facilities are readily available through the Low Countries and at North German ports. The U.S. and Canadian fighter groups could well be based in Britain; Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg are likely spots for relocating the command headquarters. The shift would be expensive and annoying, but the defense of Europe-including France-would ultimately be little affected, as De Gaulle well knows and in fact admits in wanting to remain an alliance member, enabling him to have NATO...
...leaders is Vaughan's Seed Co., which quit the mail-order business four years ago, now grosses $10 million, as compared to Burpee's $7,000,000. Vaughan's flies pollen all the way from Guatemala to fertilize flowers in California, buys tulips from Holland, begonias from Belgium, amaryllis from Africa...
When his two-year fellowship ended, Schmidt returned home, intent on educating his daughters in Holland. But the lure of Southern California was too great. "Those big telescopes are a little like drugs," he explains. "Once you've worked with them, it's hard not to return." In 1959 he accepted the offer of an assistant professorship at Caltech and came back to Pasadena. The following year, after immersing himself in the specialties of his American colleagues-spectroscopy, cosmic radiation and extragalactic phenomena-he took over the job of retiring Astronomer Rudolph Minkowski, who had been working...
...work," he explains, "I keep at it for only a quarter of an hour or so at a time." In between these sessions, he sometimes watches television with Corrie, easing his busy brain with such shows as The Man From U.N.C.L.E. and Get Smart! Another relaxing habit, imported from Holland like the Schmidts, is an occasional belt or two of volatile Dutch Bols...