Word: amsterdam
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National Students Association and the National Unions of Students in Europe chartered three student fights between New York, and Amsterdam, Holland, Round trip tickets may be obtained on planes leaving New York on July 3, 9, and 14, and leaving Amsterdam on September 8, 13, and 18. A one-way flight from New York to Amsterdam, also arranged yesterday, will leave New York September...
With The Ptomaine Canary scheduled to appear in papers as far apart as Amsterdam and Tokyo, Writer Traubel was dickering with Simon & Schuster for publishing rights to a second mystery, to be called (when written) Murder at the Met. Who was going to be done in this time, the author declined...
Niebuhr notes that the Detroit Conference in the Church & Economic Life (TIME, Feb. 27), which came out in favor of a middle way between socialism and laissez-faire capitalism, confirmed a consensus already established by Protestantism in its conferences at Stockholm (1922), Oxford (1937) and Amsterdam (1948). "This consensus of Protestant thought is the more remarkable," writes Niebuhr, "in that it closely approaches the main emphases in the social teachings of the Catholic encyclicals since Rerum Novarum [1891]. Whatever may be the differences in Catholic and Protestant social policy . . . the similarities are more striking than the differences...
...Truman's decision to develop the bomb. But the Protestants cannot agree. Last week the Executive Committee of the Federal Council of Churches wrestled with the problem, finally worked out a statement which showed the same cleavage on the subject of war as was evident at the 1948 Amsterdam conference...
...carefully selected paintings, etchings and drawings ranged from the artist's confident, worldly Self-Portrait as a Young Man (1631), when he was Amsterdam's most fashionable artist-about-town, to Lucretia, his pensive recollection of his long-dead mistress Hendrickje Stoffels, finished in 1666, when he had gained the resigned wisdom of an aging, ruined man waiting for death. It was part of Rembrandt's misfortune that such later pictures had left the stolid burghers of Amsterdam cold. Last week they helped to make the show at the Wildenstein the warmest in Manhattan...