Word: hollanders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...educator, Jerome Heartwell Holland has had considerable experience mediating between radicals and members of the Establishment. As a highly successful black man, he has moved with ease and authority in predominantly white circles. Now Holland will begin exercising his diplomatic skills in another area. In an appointment designed to thaw out Washington's relations with Stockholm, President Nixon last week nominated him to be Ambassador to Sweden...
...extent that is staggering from a U.S. point of view, the idea has caught on in France, Switzerland, Belgium, Holland, Austria, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Finland, England and, as one editor puts it, "even Spain." The "democratization" movement has flourished in the generally socialist climate of postwar Europe. Bitter experiences under the Third Reich or the Occupation prejudiced many journalists-both rank and file and at the top of the masthead -against extreme concentration of editorial control...
...that are booked to capacity for years to come. German exporters are losing their markets in China and the rest of Asia to the Japanese, and are being pushed increasingly hard even in Europe. For example, an official of Zeiss Ikon says that Japanese Pentax cameras sell in Switzerland, Holland and Sweden for 5% to 7% less than the comparable Zeiss Icarex-35. Export prowess has planted a flourishing Japanese business colony in Germany itself. More than 100 Japanese companies have opened European sales headquarters in Düsseldorf. The city now boasts a first-class Japanese restaurant, the Nippon...