Word: hollanders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nearly 150 contestants participated in the undergraduate division. George Farrelly (Mather House) out-distanced the field for individual honors with a time of 9:50. Kurt Holland (Quincy House), finished strongly to take second place. Steve Lucal (Currier House), Jeff Ferris (Currier House) and John Derho (Adams House) finished third, fourth and fifth...
...Holland, Mich...
Montgomery's game plan was sort of quantum leapfrog. On Sept. 17, 1944, a Sunday, the afternoon skies over Holland were filled with 5,000 planes and 2,500 gliders. Executing phase one of Operation Market-Garden, an airborne Allied army of 35,000, complete with vehicles and artillery, dropped onto Dutch countryside still occupied by Germans...
Detroit for a long time considered the Stirling engine too bulky and expensive for passenger cars. Ford's interest was revived by the work of the giant Dutch electronics firm, N.V. Philips, which has tested Stirling prototypes in boats, large pumps (to help dry out Holland during 1952's devastating floods) and even buses. In 1972, impressed by the Dutch results, Ford signed an agreement with Philips for joint development of a Stirling engine for passenger cars...
...problem only when it started imposing 20-year jail terms on drug dealers. In The Netherlands the maximum term is four years, but judges usually hand down sentences of only a year or so. Laments Inspector Cor Elbersen, head of the Amsterdam narcotics squad: "The drug traffic came to Holland because the sentences are lighter. I'd like to see stiffer penalties, but I'm tied by the laws of this country...