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...other officials sat down on the stage. One Bob Rowe, a middle-aged postal clerk who wildly opposes the city government, rose and said: "It will be proved that Munjoy Hill has been neglected." He heckled persistently. Finally the crowd cried: "Sit down." But a fat man named William Holland was cheered when he rose, knocking a fellow citizen's hat awry, and teed off on the city manager...
...poorly executed; amphibious tractors were too few, and unarmored. So the 2nd Marine Division had to wade through 500 yards of Japanese machine-gun fire to the bloodiest beachhead in the Corps' 176-year history. This they did. Morison gives the back of his hand to General Holland Smith, who says of his own troops' victory: "Tarawa was a mistake," claiming that the Marshalls should have been invaded first...
...Anderson-Thye amendment has all but torn this web apart, leaving other members of GATT with the feeling that U.S. trade policy is insincere and undependable. Already three countries, Denmark, Holland, and Canada have accused the United States at the recent GATT conference in Geneva of "impairing and nullifying" the agreement, and all that Undersecretary of State Willard Thorpe could do at the time was admit...
...Labor Party, which had kept quiet during the strike, now began calling Holland a "Fascist." Labor also dredged up some new issues: 1) the increased cost of living, in part due to the five-month strike; 2) Holland's attempt to put a little free enterprise back into the New Zealand welfare state; 3) an accusation that Holland had slavishly followed U.S. foreign policy (his government recently concluded a security pact with the U.S., will sign the Japanese peace treaty, is against recognition of Peking...
Last week, New Zealand voted. Result: a clear-cut victory for Holland...