Word: amsterdamers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Alexander Calder who really put movement into art," says W.J.H.G. Sandberg, former director of Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum. The affable American's Circus of 1926 was an adult toy, perhaps, but his wind-and motor-driven mobiles that followed in the '30s became the first recognized aerial expressions of art in motion. Giacometti's Suspended Ball of 1931, Brancusi's Fish on a rotating pedestal of 1926, Thomas Wilfred's lumias of the 1930s with swimming projections of colored light-all these were what Watt's apocryphal teakettle was to the steam turbine...
Denver's DC (for Denver-Chicago) Trucking Co., Inc., the nation's seventh largest line (1964 revenues: $50 million), paid $2,000,000 to acquire an 85% interest in Amsterdam's West Friesland Eurotransport, Inc. Though West Friesland's business came to a modest $3,500,000 last year, the company operates in ten countries, far more than any other European line, and thus offers DC an ideal base for expansion. Italy's Fiat has agreed to take the remaining 15% interest as "a calling card that we are leaving with a prospective new customer...
...which DC has been moving since Taylor, 49, bought a majority of the stock in 1963. So far, he has made four major domestic acquisitions, quadrupled the line's income. After a short fishing trip to the Caribbean (his first vacation in two years), Taylor will fly to Amsterdam to get the new European venture rolling. Already on his agenda: plans to expand the ten-country network by adding Portugal and Spain in the near future, later extending service to a number of countries behind the Iron Curtain...
Unfolding Technique. Last summer Amsterdam led 30 law students through 250 counties in eleven Southern states to analyze a 25-year collection of 2,600 rape cases-a major study of Southern "dual justice." Last spring Amsterdam also produced a memorable 119-page article in the Penn law review on the "removal" of civil rights cases from state to federal courts. Indeed, Amsterdam is the leading scholar of that unfolding technique, one of the big developments in U.S. law. While honing dozens of Legal Defense Fund briefs, he is also writing a lengthy trial manual for all U.S. defense lawyers...
...Amsterdam is not so much an advocate of more civil rights as he is a crack criminal lawyer seeking better protection of existing rights. The rights themselves have been won-from free expression in 1789 to equal voting in " 1965. And yet, he says, the American citizen may still be "arrested, jailed, fined under guise of bail and put to every risk and rancor of the criminal process if he expresses himself unpopularly." In the years ahead, Amsterdam intends to concentrate on making "the paper right a practical protection...