Word: hollands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mareth, Tunisia, the Sangro River in Italy, and Caen, France-but they also led to some disasters. The most notable was the ill-starred 1944 operation "Market Garden," a Montgomery plan to march straight into Germany's Ruhr Valley by seizing five bridges that crossed the Rhine in Holland. The drive collapsed at the crucial crossing, Arnhem Bridge, with a devastating defeat of U.S. and British forces...
...feeling I was dreaming up a boy's novel," recalled Art Scholar Henri Defoer, head custodian of the Archiepiscopal Museum in Utrecht. Two years ago, while visiting an elderly spinster in eastern Holland to examine a holy statue, he spotted something of greater interest-a painting that hinted of the early Rembrandt. Defoer spent the next two years in research trying to verify his discovery. This week he jubilantly announced his museum's acquisition of Rembrandt's Doop van de Kamerling (The Baptism of the Moor), the artist's second oldest known work. Painted...
...with his lithe podium acrobatics? If the man is Seiji Ozawa, the answer is, not easily. For the past three years he has led both the Boston and San Francisco symphony orchestras, but will give up the latter next season. Last week San Francisco named his successor. He is Holland's Edo de Waart, 34, the orchestra's current principal guest conductor and, since 1967, conductor of the Rotterdam Philharmonic. Like Ozawa, De Waart has charm, good looks and lots of hair. He also has the reputation of a solid all-round conductor whose Bartok is as educated...
...avoiding any immediate problem would be for Queen Juliana simply to refuse to abdicate. Constitutionally, no one can force her out. In fact, some believe she will remain on her throne no matter what happens in the current crisis. Since the monarchy in Holland has no formal power, would even abdication make much difference? There is already an anti-NATO trend within the Labor Party, which leads the governing coalition. Now, as one Dutch official puts it, "a pink House of Orange would perfectly suit the anti-Atlantic lobby in the Dutch government and Parliament...
...Holland, investigators stepped up their efforts to discover whether Prince Bernhard really did receive $1.1 million from Lockheed, as alleged. They got permission from the Swiss government to interrogate Swiss residents who might be able to shed light on the scandal. Meantime, two left-wing members of the Dutch Parliament boldly demanded that the Prince's private life should be investigated, too. Gossip sheets further titillated Europeans by talking of Bernhard's friendship with French Socialite Helene ("Pussy") Grinda, 32. The London Daily Express reported rumors that Bernhard had used Lockheed money to meet "personal commitments...