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...Collapsible baby carriage to be marketed by Holland's Mutsaerts Kinder-wagenfabriek NV. The carriage (almost 4 ft. long by 3 ft. 2 in. high) can be folded through a system of hinges into a rectangular packet the size of a small suitcase (2½ ft. long by 1½ ft. wide by 1 ft. high), weighs...
Died. Sir Sidney George Holland, 67, ex-Prime Minister of New Zealand, forceful, fast-talking proponent of free enterprise in a welfare state whose 1949 election ended 14 years of uninterrupted Labor rule; after a long illness, which forced his retirement in 1957; in Wellington...
Rump Session. In Normandy, and later in Holland, Taylor proved himself to be a master tactician, maneuvered his division with consistent versatility to keep open roads and harass the enemy. He insisted on peak performance from his staff, unceremoniously sacked one senior colonel for failing to act boldly. A stickler for discipline, Taylor once gave a lieutenant a medal for a dangerous patrol and simultaneously fined him $50 for not being clean-shaven. Taylor was harder on himself than anyone, making personal reconnaissances by Jeep, risking injury unnecessarily by sitting stubbornly at a staff table while shells fell...
...center and studying Hebrew in preparation for work in Israel. In the French village of Taizé, 30 young Germans were working on a new church that will take 14 months to build. None of these youngsters, or the dozens who labored before them on similar projects in Norway, Holland and Greece, expect to be paid a cent. They are working to expiate the guilt of their parents' generation in the demonic days of the Nazis...
...elect attracted millions all over Europe and America and made them dedicated doers. Calvin, who was confident of his own election, found the dreadful doctrine "productive of the most delightful benefit." The same warming certainty of salvation helped the Huguenots stand fast in France; it stiffened the Dutch defending Holland and nourished the Puritanism...