Word: willem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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General Secretary Willem Visser 't Hooft of the World Council of Churches commented that much would depend on "how ecumenical the council will be, in composition and spirit." There are "enormous" possibilities for cooperation (e.g., joint action against Communist oppression, prevention of atomic warfare, the problems of Christians in non-Christian countries), "provided that the Vatican is willing to admit and accept dogmatic differences." In Britain the Archbishop of Canterbury indicated that the Anglican Church would send an observer, if invited, but a spokesman for the Presbyterian Church of Scotland was dour. "We are very keen on the ecumenical...
...thin crust of soft clay over a vast labyrinth of caves and tunnels some 30 miles long where, since Roman times, men have undermined their homes by quarrying out the sandstone to build them. The quarries, abandoned in the 1900s, were put to new use in 1918 when Willem Heynen and other villagers discovered that the cave galleries had the ideal temperature and humidity for growing mushrooms...
Warning Sounds. Early one morning last week Willem Heynen's son Pierre drove his car from the fog-filled village street into the warm, brightly lit caverns under Rosenburg Hill. More than 100 workers were tending the long trays filled with sand and manure in which the mushrooms grow. Extra help had been taken on to meet the rush of holiday orders. A worker complained to Pierre that the gallery walls had been making a cracking sound. Pierre, who knew that the walls had been cracking and creaking for centuries, sent the men to another area...
...when a rescue-workers' tent set up on the hillside suddenly vanished into the bowels of the earth, all 150 rescue workers were withdrawn. Four mushroom growers were known dead, 14 were missing, and 20 injured. Among the missing: Pierre Heynen in his automobile. His father, Willem, whose initiative had helped bring prosperity to Zichen Zussen Bolder, groaned: "If only I had never started this! If only we had remained poor...
...Netherlands. Premier Willem Drees and his Labor Party (Socialists), who hold 50 out of 150 seats in Parliament, wanted to extend last year's higher taxes for two more years. The Catholic People's Party (49 seats) partner of the Socialists for twelve years, wanted a one-year extension. Down went Drees...