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Soirées & Cocktail Hours. Most of them are more or less like year-round camps with an international accent. Pehaps the most famous is the Hans Brinker, at the seaside resort of Noordwijk, 30 miles from Amsterdam. Established twelve years ago, the Hans Brinker caters to the peanut-butter-and-jelly set from The Netherlands, Belgium, France, Britain, the U.S., the Arab world and several African nations at the rate of about 1,000 children a year, and at ages ranging from three months to twelve years...
...each afternoon there is a "cocktail hour" (milk, chocolate milk, fruit juices); on Wednesday evenings a "soirée" (plays put on by the children); the days are filled with horseback riding, shuffleboard, pingpong, and swimming in summer-part of the famous Noordwijk Beach is reserved for the hotel. Language barriers go down fast. A Swedish boy at Skansebo −one of Denmark's five children's hotels −learned fluent French and accentless Danish (very difficult for a Swede) on a single summer holiday...
With interest I read your article "Diplomacy-Penny Ante" (April 21). I happen to be one of the Dutch editors who got his slice of meat snatched away at the conference in Noordwijk...
Wisconsin's Senator Alexander Wiley and his 41-year-old British-born bride Dorothy May Kydd arrived in Europe aboard a U.S. Army transport plane for a combined good-will visit ("in the national interest." said the Defense Department) and a honeymoon trip. Among their first stops: Noordwijk-aan-Zee, The Netherlands, for the opening of the International Council of Christian Leadership. After they were saluted with a few bars of Here Comes the Bride, the 68-year-old Senator, filled with good will, beamed at the delegates and said, "There's life in the boy yet." Then...
Died. Dr. Maria Montessori, 81, Italian pioneer in education, whose world-famous Montessori system for schools has been both adopted and opposed in Europe, Asia and the Americas; in Noordwijk, The Netherlands (see EDUCATION...