Word: hollanders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spends weekends during the summer in his white-brick mansion in a pine forest near Holland's Haarlem. Called Koekoeks Duin (Cuckoo's Dune) when Loudon bought it five years ago, it is hung with tapestries and paintings (among them a self-portrait of the young Rembrandt), stocked with old editions, and graced with an icebox liquor cabinet hidden behind a fake bookshelf (Loudon's drink: Scotch and soda). He is an excellent dancer, likes to golf (in the 90s), spent a week last winter skiing in Switzerland with his wife and two of his sons, Fred...
Policy Changes. John Hugo Loudon was a natural candidate for the Group's exclusive club. His grandfather was once Governor General of the Dutch East In dies, his uncle Holland's Foreign Minister in World War I. His father. Hugo Loudon, broke the family's civil service tradition to study civil engineering, became one of the early pioneers of Royal Dutch and later a managing director and chairman...
...would be like if Smith got elected: the Pope and a dozen fat priests sitting happily around the table, with Smith, in bellboy livery, serving them liquor. Out in the boondocks. Smith haters showed audiences a photograph of Governor Smith at the inauguration of New York City's Holland Tunnel in 1927, warned that he was planning to extend the tunnel to the basement of the Vatican if he got elected President...
...American leaders around conference tables, at luncheon and dinner. In Argentina, one group of committeemen closeted themselves for 1½ hours with Economy Minister Alvaro Alsogaray while another met with eleven top educators, heard earnest argument for more fellowships for study in the U.S. In Chile, the team of Holland and Milton Eisenhower listened to Chilean university heads explain their dilemma as a conflict between a developing nation's obligation to concentrate on technical learning without neglecting liberal arts. Said Finance Minister Roberto Vergara after a long meeting with Donnelly, Knight and Meyer: "They expressed opinions about nothing...
...Milton Eisenhower, president of Johns Hopkins University; Walter J. Donnelly, U.S. Steel's Latin American representative; G. Kenneth Holland, president of the Institute of International Education; O. A. Knight, president of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers International Union; Sears, Roebuck Vice President Charles A. Meyer in charge of Latin American branches; Dana G. Munro, former director of Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs...