Word: maastricht
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your caves of Rosenburg Hill story [Jan. 5] brought back many memories, as I was one of the first to be taken into Belgium's ancient quarried hillside honeycomb in 1944. The townspeople of nearby Maastricht had used one small segment of these quarries as an air raid shelter capable of housing 70,000 people easily. The Queen Wilhelmina art collection, including Rembrandt's The Nightwatch, was stored away in them with full cooperation from the Germans, who never realized that running right alongside the air raid shelter and art sanctuary was a path to freedom for Allied...
...been knocked unconscious. Groping through the thick fog, slipping on the wet clay topsoil, they screamed for help. The village priest and the schoolteacher spread the alarm, and fare brigades soon arrived from the Belgian cities of Hasselt and Tongres. and from the nearby Dutch city of Maastricht. They saw with horror that the hill was still moving convulsively, with craters 10 ft. wide appearing in the earth...
Champ. In Maastricht, The Netherlands, Dutch Motorcyclist Priem Rozen-berg, 1952 winner of a trophy as best all-round Dutch motorcyclist, five-time member of the Dutch six-day motorcycle team, three-time winner of the Monaco motorcycle trophy, revealed that he had never earned a cyclist's license, finally took his driver's test and failed when he forgot to look back before turning left...
...were replaced by boredom and disillusionment. When at last the yacht reached Southampton, the passengers, thoroughly fed up and no longer so fearful of war, debarked and found their own way back to Holland. Last August, when President Robert himself came limping home, he was promptly tossed in a Maastricht jail, accused of swindling...
Last week an indignant prosecutor demanded that the ex-President be given four years to think over the world's problems in private. In drab civvies in the dingy Maastricht dock, the President admitted a little disappointment. "I was persuaded that I could help," he said, "but alas, everything went wrong...