Word: amsterdamers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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None is more awesome or more activist than Anthony G. Amsterdam of the Uni versity of Pennsylvania...
...Strikes Back. Meanwhile Vergennes secretly notified Shelburne that France would not support the American demand for fishing rights. Shelburne, sensing an opportunity to divide his enemies, discreetly apprised the Americans of what the French had said. Franklin was ill at the time and Adams happened to be in Amsterdam, so Jay got the message and he was furious. He had also discovered that Spain, with French compliance, intended in the peace treaty to limit the U.S. to a narrow strip of territory along the Atlantic coast and to take everything west of the Appalachians for itself. It was clear...
...stage. Auditorium walls reshaped. Two-foot-deep "reflector box" constructed around stage apron. Air-conditioning units are muffled. Total cost: $335,000. Critics say echoes persist and bass has developed thudding sound. Consensus is that sound is warmer, but still nothing approaching that of Vienna's Grosser Musikvereinssaal, Amsterdam's Concertgebouw or Boston's Symphony Hall-all built before acoustics became a science...
...prime borrowers, little money is available in Europe for less than 7%, v. about 5% in the U.S. These premiums stand to cut the U.S. companies' foreign earnings, which have been growing faster than domestic earnings. To make borrowing easier, Dow Chemical has bought an interest in an Amsterdam bank, soon will open a wholly-owned bank in Zurich...
...wrinkle in service is the package tour that KLM and Belgium's Sabena (as well as the U.S.'s Pan American) will propose at the International Air Transport Association meeting in Bermuda this month. Under KLM's plan, a passenger will be able to fly from Amsterdam to New York, stay two weeks in a hotel (without meals), and return to Holland-all for $360. Reason for the bargain: so many transatlantic planes fly full one way, half empty the other, that the lines would rather have low-fare passengers than no one in the seats...