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...flabby and imperfect human body. Gerrit Rietveld's penitential chairs, rigidly geometric and painted in their bright, winking primaries, go far beyond the ordinary level of Bauhaus discomfort as practiced in the '20s. Yet one cannot imagine Rietveld's masterpiece, the tiny Schroder house in Utrecht, being furnished with anything else. Such interiors were not open to redecoration: the pattern is absolute, the space a sermon. One would need to be the truest of believers to live in such a house, as Mrs. Truus Schröder-Schräder, who commissioned it from Rietveld...
Nicole van den Thillart, 35, was a part-time social worker in the Dutch city of Utrecht until she decided to focus all of her energies on her studies in psychology and motor therapy. But she cannot find a job, even as an ordinary nurse in a psychiatric ward. "The crucial thing is to maintain a disciplined life," Van den Thillart says. "So, I make a program for every new day: get up at a certain time, do this, do that. I keep telling myself I will get a job, I am going to make...
...Animal Behaviorist Frans de Waal of the State University of Utrecht had a better idea. Why not try to find another mother for Roosje? Her keepers chose Kuif, a high-ranking female in the colony. A worker began vigils outside Kuif s night cage holding bottle and babe. At first, Kuif did her best to hide her keen curiosity; in the chimp world, no one is supposed to approach a newborn without its mother's consent. After two weeks, Roosje was placed inside Kuifs cage, and to the scientists' delight, Kuif immediately cuddled her new charge, took...
...grim replay of that incident, nine young Moluccans hijacked a Utrecht-Groningen express train near De Punt on May 23, while five others seized the primary school at Bovensmilde, where there were 105 children and five teachers. There was no doubt that the Moluccans intended to terrify the country. The children were forced to the windows to chant to the waiting troops and parents, "Van Agt, we want to live!" On several occasions hostages were displayed outside the train with ropes around their necks. But after an influenza-type epidemic broke out at the school, the terrorists freed...
Creating Trouble. The kidnapers were South Moluccan rebels with a history of creating trouble in The Netherlands. In December 1975 another group of terrorists seized the Indonesian consulate in Amsterdam and a train on the Utrecht-Groningen rail line (TIME, Dec. 15, 1975). Before that 15-day ordeal ended with the surrender of 14 Moluccans, three train passengers had been executed and a fourth hostage fell to his death from a consulate window...