Word: amsterdam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was no substantiation of rumors heard in Amsterdam that Sukarno had been ousted by a triumvirate including Premier Djuanda and the chief of staff, Maj. Gen. Abdul Harris Nasution, and headed by Mohammed Hatta, former vice president and Sukarno's chief partner in the Indonesian revolution...
Many associated the lack of that leadership with Ike's reduced work schedule, and last week's stroke dashed their hopes that Ike was recovering his earlier vigor. "The leadership of the West," lamented De Volkskrant of Amsterdam, "is in the hands of a great but sick man who cannot accomplish much more than the purely representative duties of his office." Said a member of Germany's Bundestag: "Can a man who is fighting frailty of body avoid frailty of leadership...
...Unwittingly illustrating her point, she added: "It's most unfortunate that I can't travel with an enchanting young man without all this talk starting!" The enchanting young man: sleek, suave Philip Van Rensselaer, 30, a onetime Manhattan model, aspiring novelist, unwealthy descendant of an old New Amsterdam family. Bolstering reports that the pair have spent the past few months husking poetry to each other in romantic Venetian settings, there has been no recent sign of Babs's sixth husband, Baron Gottfried von Cramm, 48, onetime tennistar, in her immediate vicinity. Will Phil...
...make an impression on the delegates to the annual meeting of the 21-nation Colombo Plan, the British-fostered scheme designed to help the backward nations of Southeast Asia. New paint gleamed everywhere. Old buildings and the sidewalks before them were scrubbed as clean as any in Amsterdam. Mayor Nguyen Phu Hai had sternly forbidden his citizens to spit in public or walk even partially naked in the streets. Energetic President Ngo Dinh Diem's capital had come a long way from the fear and misery of the days when every sidewalk café was guarded by heavy wire...
Arrivals in Prague, capital of Communist Czechoslovakia, via KLM Flight 650 from Mexico City to Montreal, Shannon and Amsterdam: one man, one woman and one boy, bearing brand-new passports and making like brand-new citizens of the Republic of Paraguay. Their credentials...