Word: amsterdam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They did not know Phyllis. She was unmoved by the offer. At last the Communists told her she could take her children and go "as an act of grace." Last week, accompanied by the three little Sisperas, Phyllis, looking plump and happy, arrived at the Amsterdam airport, a free woman. Readers of the Daily Express had not been prepared for what happened next. She flew straight into the arms of Jaromir Chudy, the refugee who had got the Express interested in her story. Announced Jaromir calmly: "I am going to marry...
Died. Jan van den Tempel, 88. Dutch statesman and novelist (Jacqueline Vrijlieff), first Dutch Socialist Cabinet Minister (Department of Social Affairs, 1939-45); in Amsterdam...
Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam (Sun. 2:30 p.m., CBS). Eduard van Beinum conducts music by Beethoven and Debussy...
...England crossed to America, and when the first colonial confederation was formed for mutual safety in 1643 among Plymouth, Massachusetts, New Haven and Connecticut, Tower believes, a flag of four red stripes was adopted and flown from coastal trading vessels as shown in a 1647 view of New Amsterdam (opposite). From these Puritan beginnings, the red-and-white-striped flag gradually took on a national symbolism. It appeared in New York during the Stamp Act Congress of 1765, with nine red and white stripes-for New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island. Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and South Carolina...
Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam (Sun. 2:30 p.m., CBS). Eduard van Beinum conducts music by Pijper, Beethoven, Ravel...