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...James G. Holland, a research psychologist, and Bahjat B. Khielf, a native of Nazareth, Palestine, have been appointed lecturers on Education. Mr. Khielf will also serve as a research associate in the Center for Field Studies of the School of Education...
...Laval's motive for official collaboration with the Germans, which he never denied. And what, if anything, he accomplished for France. Laval, to the last, insisted that he made the occupation easier-by keeping Hitler from planting a terrorist German regime in France as he did in Holland, by dragging his feet in dispatching conscript French workers to Germany, by getting prisoners of war repatriated, by fighting to protect French Jews. "You don't save France," he reproached the Gaullists, "by quitting her soil...
...music's finest old traditions is that young conductors must make their debuts only when calamity strikes the maestro and leaves the podium bare. Last week at the Holland Festival in Amsterdam, Viennese Actress Paula Wessely had a nervous breakdown and Russian Cellist David Rostropovich had a heart attack, setting the emotional stage for the illness of Conductor Paul Sacher, scheduled to lead the Dutch Chamber Orchestra. Aging Conductor Pierre Monteux, 88, promptly appeared on the scene with his protégé in his pocket. "My pupil," said Monteux, "he's great. He reminds...
Painful Brilliance. Manufactured by the Old Delft optical company in Holland, Dr. Bouwers' night eye was originally designed to brighten the dim pictures on doctors' fluoroscopes, to give a good look at a patient's internal organs without the need for powerful and dangerous doses of X rays. But soon after the first tests, the military showed an understandable and urgent interest. For the night eye needs no artificial light source, like the snooperscopes of World War II, which merely detected the reflections of infrared light shot out by the scopes themselves. The Dutch device is built...
...every direction. Along its banks are such big oil refiners as Shell, Caltex, Esso, Mobil and British Petroleum, which have made Rotterdam one of the world's main oil-refining centers. The port boasts the Verolme shipyards, one of Europe's biggest, the headquarters of the Holland-America Line, the world's biggest artificial harbor, and a growing chemical and petrochemical complex...