Word: hollanders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...NATO presence now in France is variously estimated at from $300 million to more than $1 billion. Alternate port and supply facilities are readily available through the Low Countries and at North German ports. The U.S. and Canadian fighter groups could well be based in Britain; Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg are likely spots for relocating the command headquarters. The shift would be expensive and annoying, but the defense of Europe-including France-would ultimately be little affected, as De Gaulle well knows and in fact admits in wanting to remain an alliance member, enabling him to have NATO...
When his two-year fellowship ended, Schmidt returned home, intent on educating his daughters in Holland. But the lure of Southern California was too great. "Those big telescopes are a little like drugs," he explains. "Once you've worked with them, it's hard not to return." In 1959 he accepted the offer of an assistant professorship at Caltech and came back to Pasadena. The following year, after immersing himself in the specialties of his American colleagues-spectroscopy, cosmic radiation and extragalactic phenomena-he took over the job of retiring Astronomer Rudolph Minkowski, who had been working...
...work," he explains, "I keep at it for only a quarter of an hour or so at a time." In between these sessions, he sometimes watches television with Corrie, easing his busy brain with such shows as The Man From U.N.C.L.E. and Get Smart! Another relaxing habit, imported from Holland like the Schmidts, is an occasional belt or two of volatile Dutch Bols...
...FIREDRAKE by Cecelia Holland. 243 pages. Afheneum...
...usual historical novel is notoriously long on panoply and pomp. In this spare but sturdy tale, young (22) First-Novelist Cecelia Holland cuts away the familiar embroideries and tells the story of a wandering warrior-knight who rights for pay in the feudal feuds of llth century Europe, winds up under William the Conqueror in the thick of the slaughter at Hastings. Author Holland, who writes history as if her hero were watching it happen, en-capsules the medieval military mind: brash as plunder, elemental as blood...