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Soon after World War II Italy, Holland, and Norway evolved their own charts. In Italy, under the Marshall Plan and private sponsorship, a table was developed to answer questions about the entire Italian economy and to assist in understanding the problems of relatively underdeveloped Southern Italy...
...plants in most countries of the world. Today from Eindhoven, one of Europe's biggest company towns (pop. 160,000), Anton's son-in-law. President Frans Otten, and Anton's son. Vice President Frits Philips, direct an industrial empire that has 66,000 employees in Holland, 114,000 in the rest of the world. It thus rates after General Electric as the largest employer in its field, generates 12% of Holland's industrial export income by turning out scores of products including Christmas tree lights, Norelco electric shavers, television sets, super-powered electron microscopes, hospital...
...Kooning, is Rotterdam Dutch, and his opposite number in Europe, Karel Appel, is Amsterdam Dutch. Last week Appel both enthralled and infuriated the home town with a major retrospective at Amsterdam's Municipal Museum. Appel himself stayed in his house in Paris. "I can't stand Holland," Appel confided fiercely, "for more than two or three days...
...room of the Municipal Museum, Appel responded by blobbing all four walls and the ceiling with brilliant colors, thus placing the coffee sippers within a napping tent of a picture. "How could a person paint that happy and be Dutch?" wondered an admiring American. The next year Appel left Holland. Now, married to a Dutch model, sought after by collectors, he prospers mightily in Paris, has been accepted as an officer in good standing in the hierarchy of international expressionism. His work hangs in Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. and last year UNESCO commissioned him to decorate...
...behind U.S. instruments. The Russians' biggest optical telescope is a 50-in. reflector that they took from the Germans after World War II. They are building a 104-in. reflector and designing a 200-incher. Their radio telescopes are good, but no better than those of France or Holland...