Word: amsterdamers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FESTIVAL (NET, 9-10 p.m.). To commemorate the 300th anniversary of the master's death, "In Search of Rembrandt" visits Leyden, where the painter was born, Amsterdam, where he lived, and museums throughout the world...
...often costly in Europe. In West Germany, some self-service laundries charge $1 to wash a load of clothing. Cantaloupes often sell for $1.75 apiece; coffee costs $1.74 a pound. Bread costs 60? a loaf in Paris, and cigarettes are 75? a pack in London. A publisher in Amsterdam sold his U.S. car when he discovered that commuting to work cost...
Part of Schifrin's versatility stems from his parents' background. His grandfather had traveled from his native Russia to Amsterdam, intending to catch the first ship to the U.S. The only boat leaving immediately was bound for Buenos Aires, so he took it. Thus, Lalo (his real first name is Boris) was born in 1932 in a city that drew no cultural and social lines between various forms of music. Argentine folk music, Spanish songs, American jazz and pop, the classics, were all treated on a par-especially in the household run by Schifrin's father, concertmaster...
...Brussels, L'Epaule de Mouton regularly lists Orange Sabayon Fielding on its menu, and in Madrid, Horcher's serves chicken salad a la Temple Fielding. He has been decorated three times by the Spanish government, belongs to a royal order in Sweden, and is an honorary citizen of Amsterdam. Yet Fielding is still the cartoon image of the American supertourist?relentlessly energetic about travel but worried about getting gypped, wary of being misdirected or slighted, and rather homesick for America. So last week, when the Italian government notified Fielding that it had awarded him the Grand Cross of the Ordina...
...under age bracket?currently nearly half of all the U.S. tourists who visit Europe. He appeals to them so gainfully that within ten years he has parlayed Europe on $5 a Day into a company that publishes 14 separate guidebooks, operates a tour service, owns hotels in Amsterdam and Copenhagen and is currently planning a public stock issue to finance further expansion...