Word: amsterdamers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like big city cops all the way from Manhattan to Tokyo, police in once placid Amsterdam were being run ragged by teen-age punks. Dressed in juvenile delinquency's international uniform-leather jacket and blue jeans-Amsterdam's longhaired nozem* liked to roar around the city's central Dam Square on souped-up motorcycles, scaring tourists, chasing pretty girls and disrupting traffic. Time and again police squads charged gangs of nozem with batons and sabers swinging; the nozem continued to flourish, and nozempie kijken-watching the nozem-became a popular evening pastime in Amsterdam...
Delighted with their growing audiences, the nozem recently began to extend their activities into one of Amsterdam's chief tourist attractions-the legalized red-light district, occupying a network of ijth century streets around Dam Square. While police fumed impotently. the nozem ranged up and down, heckling tourists on the prowl, making fun of the prostitutes, sometimes even smashing the big bay windows in which the girls display themselves. To avoid trouble, tourists began to stay away from the district; prostitution and pimping revenues fell accordingly...
Fortnight ago the Amsterdam underworld, outraged by declining dividends, took matters into its own hands, dispatched a flying squad of 50 musclemen, who set upon a gang of nozem out on a heckling foray and administered professional beatings all around. The same evening Amsterdam's police commissioner got a telephone call from the city's leading racketeer. Willem ("Fat Steak'') Wagenaar. Said Fat Steak: "If you can't keep order in our district, we'll take over. Keep your police at home; we'll fix the nozem." Bubbling with official indignation, the commissioner...
With stocks, bonds and Buchwald, the Paris Trib has left other English-language papers far behind on the Continent; the New York Times's slender International edition (circulation about 8,000), printed in Amsterdam, reaches readers a full day or more after the Trib. "Le New York," as the French fondly call it, is more than a daily paper-it is a European institution, like the Flea Market and the Bourse, the Rhine and the Rhone...
Ellery Queen (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). The prima ballerina does a pratfall onstage. But her reputation is saved: it's murder. Cow-eyed Comedian Morey Amsterdam bounces through the rerun of Dance of Death with the graceful assistance of Ballerina Tamara Geva. Color...