Word: hollanders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fabled Slow Boat to China. Women seem to like cruises because they can count on good food and plumbing aboard ship, are spared the hazards of finding their way alone through strange cities and into questionable hotels. They also get to see a big piece of the world. Holland-American Line's Rotterdam, for example, is now steaming around the world on an 80-day trip that will include a tiger shikar at the jungle estates of the Maharajah of Cooch Behar in the foothills of the Himalayas, a tour of Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, side trips...
...first established an ad ministrative post 64 years ago, 3,000 dark-skinned Papuans staged an anti-Indonesian protest march-with encouragement from the Dutch. Waving their own red-and-blue national flag, they paraded to the strains of an old Dutch anthem. Its name: We Want to Keep Holland...
Last week Manhattan's Sidney Janis Gallery had on view a small retrospective show that traces some of the steps along that route. It begins with the year 1903 when Mondrian, then 31, was painting the common sights of his native Holland -houses and windmills, rivers and canals. As the years passed, Mondrian began to strip awyay the outer layers of nature to reveal its skeletal geometry. A tree was not made up of a trunk and branches but of horizontals and verticals. When Mondrian painted a flower, he was primarily interested in its "plastic structure...
...clubhouse and a three-quarter-mile track that is specially designed to provide good footing, even when it is covered with snow. But Charles Town's persistent problem is still the freakish winter weather. In 1954, a bolt of lightning struck the starting gate, knocked out Starter Harold Holland and the two Percherons that were tugging the gate into position. In 1956, riders abruptly quit for the day after a 60-m.p.h. gust of wind blew Jockey George Stidham out of his saddle as he was leading the pack through the stretch...
During the past four years--some 20,000 years later--a modern band of hunters has been camping at the old Stone Age site--a team of archaeologists, paleontologists, and geologists from Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Holland, India, Italy, and the United States, and about 40 graduate students...