Word: hollander
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...Nikita Khrushchev packed his extra truthbrush, someone else beat him to the U.S.'s broad, well-woofed welcome mat. In New York Harbor's Gravesend Bay, the new Holland-America liner Rotterdam met the Dutch destroyer Gelderland, transferred a special passenger: plumply pretty Princess Beatrix, 21, heiress presumptive to the throne of The Netherlands. Under cloudbursts of ticker tape, she was driven up lower Broadway, incidentally passing over the site where marooned Dutch sailors spent the winter of 1613 as the first white inhabitants of Manhattan. In the U.S. for ten days, the princess would lunch with President...
...stock purchasing has risen to such a pitch throughout Germany that the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung recently toured the schools in a poorer section of town, found 14-year-olds who knowingly employed stock market terms. Asked the newspaper: "Is the stock market becoming the soccer field of tomorrow?" In Holland, the Heyn chain of 360 grocery stores gives out coupons instead of trading stamps, and the coupons can be turned in for special debentures now paying...
...bemedaled then, beset now-symbolizes a growing U.S. distaste for dictators. For decades the U.S. was accused of buttering up strongmen. Eager to thaw anti-Yankee Juan Perón, for example, the State Department sent Latin American Chief Henry Holland to Argentina in 1954 to toast the dictator for "purest sincerity." The U.S. propped Nicaragua's Anastasio ("Tacho") Somosa, who seized power after the Marines pulled out, on Franklin Roosevelt's theory that "he may be an s.o.b., but he's ours." In Peru, Military Strongman Manuel Odria got the Legion of Merit for running...
Then began four months in Holland's crowded underground of British paratroops, Allied flyers, refugee Jews, secret agents. It was an eerie world, in which Dutch villagers would "send for the underground men just as they did for the plumber." Paul holed up in one hideout beneath the floorboards of a barn while German troops clomped about up above. He narrowly missed recapture when he joined in an astonishing attempt at a mass breakout to British lines by 110 men, which German patrols mopped up. Two more attempts failed; he had one desperate but exhilarating moment when he wheeled...
Frans Hals has been called a wife-beater, a tosspot, a congenital bankrupt and an angel with a brush. The first three charges rest on the petty court records of Haarlem, Holland, the last on about 300 paintings scattered throughout the world. The court records show a sorry existence, the paintings a radiant one. Hals's life was both. He fathered 14 children, often went cold and hungry with his brood, died penniless (in 1666) at the age of 86. In good times he would march off to the club, being fond of music, beer and jolly company...