Word: hollanders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ruby's crime, much less seen it on film. Yet his lawyers settled for shifting the trial from Dallas to Wichita Falls, a mere 135 miles away. True, Mars was out, but why Wichita Falls? Simply the luck of the draw. The case came before Judge Louis T. Holland, who was sitting temporarily in Dallas, but whose regular district includes Wichita Falls. Not only would Holland have thus kept the case-a situation both sides applauded-but, as Holland saw it, the smaller city (pop. 140,000) was "far enough away not to come under the influence...
...France's Le Mans, Monaco's Monte Carlo, Holland's Zandvoort, Germany's Niirburgring, Belgium's Spa-Francorchamps, Britain's Silverstone, Italy's Monza, South Africa's Kyalami Circuit, Mexico's Mexico City, Canada's Mosport Park, the U.S.'s Watkins Glen...
...Cecelia Holland. 243 pages. Atheneum...
...Novelist Holland's hero helps explain the Magyar weakness. The great Baron Rakóssy and the other lords have just crushed a peasant rebellion and are now squabbling with each other. Rakóssy has his eye on Catharine de Buñez, who is related to the Habsburg emperor, and he gets her; for good measure, he seduces her sister and slays her brother-in-law. He also has his eye on the neighboring castle of Vrath and gets it as well, by trickery rather than force of arms. By this time, not only the peasants...
...were hardly as enticing as the intimate details that the press had already reported as cut from the Look series at Jackie's insistence-but no difference. Despite protests from Look, which pruned 1,600 words from the 60,000-word text, Germany's Der Stern, the Holland weekly Revue and the Danish daily Berlingske Tidende are going ahead with plans to publish the uncut original, which will certainly appear shortly thereafter in the U.S. Even so, attorneys met daily in Manhattan to work out a Look-like settlement with Harper & Row, publishers of the 300,000-word...