Word: amsterdamers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...presented at the American Artists Center in Paris, we would like to state how much we, in turn, disagree with his obsolete thinking. The art of revolt and hallucinations, the awareness and new meaning of freedom, which are coming out of the happenings produced in Paris, New York, Amsterdam, Stockholm or Tokyo-all that is too much for Professor Barr. But for us, it's only a beginning...
Real Romance. Bad Neuenahr is typical because gambling, once considered a failing of the decadent aristocracy, has throughout Europe today become awesomely respectable, middle-class-and big. In Monaco, camera-toting tourists just off tour buses from Brussels and Amsterdam clutter up the Grand Casino, while serious Monégasque students of chance clang away at the one-armed bandits lined up across the street from the elegant Hotel de Paris. In France, the postwar development of le tierce, a combination racing bet and lottery, which attracts 3,000,000 Frenchmen every Sunday, has made horse-track betting the country...
...They also cling to their own ways, no matter what the efficiency experts say: Germans like their bottle of beer on the job, the French must have their daily liter of wine, and the Spaniards insist on a three-hour siesta at midday. A U.S.-owned factory in Amsterdam barely averted a walkout over how the cafeteria food should be seasoned, and an exasperated U.S. executive in France found that, after one worker complained of a draft, he had to discuss for hours what doors of a warehouse should be opened or closed...
Died. Horatius Albarda, 61, president of Royal Dutch Airlines, fourth among international carriers, an Amsterdam lawyer who took over the floundering, top-heavy company in 1963, cut losses from $21 million to $4,000,000 last year by pruning away 4,000 excess employees, restoring Far East service, eliminating old pistons and going for jets; of injuries sustained when the twin-engine Beechcraft in which he was a passenger crashed during a storm near St. Moritz, Switzerland, also killing his wife and the two pilots...
...TIME had the wrong perspective on the Princess' visit to Amsterdam's seamier section. It is well known that the Princess, a serious student of social conditions, often walks through the city disguised so that she may observe unobserved...