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When I arrived in 1956 Wageningen counted 20,000 inhabitants. Dispite its mere 1,000 students the Agricultural University was omnipresent in town. Thanks to the Marshal Plan it had been put well on its feet with a view to modernizing the nation's agricultural sector after World War II. Together with its allied institutes and trial fields the university was -and still is- the driving force for the town's economy and major user of land in and around it. The historic center of about five hundred meters in square is deftly encircled by a moat, although I doubt whether ever a battle was fought about the place. Most of the houses in which I rented room in the seven years to follow, the Club and my suppliers were all conveniently located within its confines.
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