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DIED. MOREY AMSTERDAM, 80ish, master of the one-liner who brought his cheerfully wisecracking persona from vaudeville to TV's The Dick Van Dyke Show; in Los Angeles...
...just like it didn't happen. It's weird. We prepared for so long," said Martyntje Quik, coxswain of the women's eight-person squad from the Nereus rowing club in Amsterdam...
...Amsterdam team hoped for a night of party-hopping before their flight home today. They said they were not going to let the cancellation. of the regatta stop them from enjoying the weekend anyway...
...Georgia, but after her parents divorced, her mother, a French teacher, moved to Paris along with her daughter. Young Madeleine soon began to explore the city. "I saw these street performers and I was fascinated," she says. Soon she was one of them, wandering the streets of Paris and Amsterdam, stealing rides on trains, sleeping in friends' apartments...
...women of the 100 also have a rich history, dating back to Amsterdam in '28, when a 16-year-old from Riverdale, Illinois, Betty Robinson, won the race--the very first track event for women--with a time of 12.2 sec. What made Robinson's victory so remarkable was that the Olympics was only her fourth track meet. The 1932 winner was Stanislawa Walasiewicz of Poland, who was better known in the U.S., her second country, as Stella Walsh. According to an official, Walsh ran "with long, manlike strides." The reason for that became clear some 48 years later when...