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Captain Carey McIntosh and Stacy Holmes will start again at left and center half. Denny Little will start at right half. Munro will use Erik Stapper, a native of Holland, to relieve McIntosh and Little, but so far has been unable to find a suitable replacement for Holmes...
...contrast, the tone of Holland's visit to Chile was somber and serious. President Carlos Ibáñez, bucking an anti-Administration majority in Congress, has been helpless to curb Chile's feverish inflation. Of a comprehensive economic program he offered. Congress passed only a sales tax. Unionists, 520,000 strong (in a country of 6,100,000), reacted to that with strikes. Starting in August, copper miners closed down the big mining industry, and government revenues from copper exports vanished. Ibáñez forced the miners back to work by threatening to draft them into...
...four hours with Ibáñez and his chief ministers, Holland got a restrained rundown on Chile's plight. They asked for no U.S. aid, but Chilean economists later told him that at November's hemisphere conference in Rio they will seek creation of a new development-loan bank and price supports for Latin American raw materials. Holland spoke up for broadened trade and private investments, and departed, soberly, for Bolivia...
Gentle, grey-haired Kees Boeke started out as something of an anarchist and eventually founded a school that should have caused most parents to turn away in dismay. Instead, Schoolmaster Boeke has become one of the most respected and respectable educators in Holland. Last week, as he retired at the age of 70, his school in Bilthoven (near Utrecht) was not only thriving, it boasted such eminent alumnae as the three eldest daughters of Queen Juliana...
...Other Cheek. Boeke's idealism did not stop with money. Back in Britain during World War I, he tried to tell the English to turn the other cheek, soon found himself languishing in jail as a pacifist. In 1918, he was deported to Holland; but by the time he and his family settled in Bilthoven, he had already acquired other convictions. For one thing, he decided that all governments were based on force and that therefore he could have nothing to do with them or their byproducts. He refused to use the railways, telephones or post office; and though...