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Helen Manning Hunter, an economist, will study the historical relationship between the growth of consumer debt and the growth of income and spending. For the past ten years a lecturer in Economics at Swarthmore, she is the wife of Holland Hunter, professor of Economics at Haverford College, who will spend his sabbatical year at the Russian Research Center...
Thomson sounds not only good but loud in every phase of electrical and electronic production in France. Still outranked in the rest of Europe by such rival electrical giants as Holland's Philips and Germany's Siemens (and only one twenty-fifth the size of America's G.E.), Thomson-Houston has outstripped all domestic competition in France and is still growing. Today the company's 21 factories turn out 50% of France's telecommunications equipment, 20% of its television sets, produce everything from electric light bulbs to antiaircraft missiles. Thomson's sales have doubled...
...high school, used a W.C.T.U. scholarship (he is no longer an abstainer) to help finance his studies at the University of Nevada, where he majored in physics and math. In his last year, he married a girl he had met in church: Johanna Wilhelmina Schouten, whose parents emigrated from Holland. In recent years, she and their five children have bravely endured both his long absences from home and his addiction to secondhand automobiles (he owns four: a '36 Dodge coupé, a '41 Dodge pickup, a '50 Ford convertible, a '51 Chevrolet sedan...
When his motion was approved, Holland moved that the language of the anti-poll-tax amendment be substituted for the language of the Hamilton resolution...
...maneuver was necessary to bring the poll-tax amendment to a Senate vote; the actual bill was tied up in the Judiciary Committee, chaired by Mississippi's James O. Eastland. Holland's tactics stirred the brief wrath of Georgia's Richard Russell, leader of the fight against the amendment. Cried Russell: "We are adopting an absurd, farfetched, irrational, unreasonable and unconstitutional method to get this amendment." Then Russell subsided and Holland's motion carried...