Word: hollanders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Holland's ocean-going tugboat fleet, they tell some beguiling yarns about a young captain, name of Martinus Harinxma. Once, lost in a fog in a minefield, he unerringly determined his ship's position by tasting a sample of sea bottom brought up by the lead; while towing the Shah of Persia's yacht to the Caspian Sea via Russia, he smuggled two girls aboard at Stockholm and kept an orgy going in the Shah's big oval bed during the crossing to Leningrad...
...SCHAAP Vlaardingen, Holland...
Wooden Birds. Just as in Holland, where Hals and Rembrandt painted citizen companies of harquebusiers, Polish burghers formed shooting fraternities. Their aim was to defend their city walls; more often they were social militias. Their targets were wooden birds atop staffs, a custom recalled in the Cracow fraternity's emblem, which was the gift of Sigismund Augustus in 1565, with its silver cock resplendent in royal crown and symbolically attached by a chain to its perch. Poland has been partitioned out of existence only to re-emerge as a nation, changed again under present-day Communism, but its ancient...
...Miss Holland won after tattling to the judges that Miss Italy's bathing suit was padded. Last year there were wails of "fix" when a Miss United Kingdom won the contest for the second straight time, and this year's Miss World competition didn't promise to be much more ladylike. When the winner was finally chosen in London's Lyceum Ballroom, green-eyed Miss Malta shrieked: "The judges must be blind!" Not at all, though they did show a certain lack of foresight in picking Miss India, Bombay Medical Student Reita Faria...
Only in retrospect was the 17th century in Holland seen as the age of Rembrandt. At the time, it was the glittering solidity of a moneyed middle class, the robust freedom of a people unburdened by spendthrift - and the plain cockiness of the most successful seafaring nation in Europe that struck the eye. These are characteristics that Frans Hals pictured with precision...