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...move. And M.E.P.s were tipsy with their newfound power. At Les Aviateurs bar, a popular watering hole in Strasbourg, young M.E.P.s partied until dawn to celebrate their victory. "There isn't a parliament in the history of democracy that didn't have to fight fiercely for its powers," Edith Mastenbroek, 29, a first-term Dutch Socialist, told Time. "That we did it over an issue of human rights - that's just beautiful." Parliament's assertion of power is a boon for integrationists, who would like to see a greater role for the E.U.'s only directly elected body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Lapdog Bares its Fangs | 10/31/2004 | See Source »

...field events was the performances of U. S. Negroes. Major feature of the Olympic swimming was the performances of Dutch girls. The Netherlands' equivalent of Jesse Owens and No. 2 celebrity of the Games turned out to be a ponderous 17-year-old from Rotterdam named Hendrika Wilhelmina Mastenbroek, who won both the 100 and 400-metre free style races, helped her team win the 400-metre relay. Because her pretty teammate, Dina Senff, took the 100-metre backstroke title, little Holland won every swimming event on the program except the 200-metre breast stroke which went to Japan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Olympic Games (Concl'd) | 8/24/1936 | See Source »

...keep their weight down, Dutch swimmers train on beans, go in heavily for dancing. That this process is eminently successful, Dutch trainers feel to be conclusively proved by the fact that Swimmer Mastenbroek, whose hobby is cooking, weighs a mere 150 Ib. while 18-year-old Willy den Ouden, until last week rated the world's ablest girl free-style swimmer, as yet shows few signs of outgrowing her 242-lb. mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Olympic Games (Concl'd) | 8/24/1936 | See Source »

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