Word: amsterdamers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Back in The Netherlands, the royal party sped to the white Soestdijk Palace east of Amsterdam. When they reached it, 5,000 Dutchmen were waiting in prickly silence. Then the crowd raised a mighty cheer and surged through the gates behind their limousines, singing the Dutch birthday anthem, "Long may she live, hip, hip, hurray...
Distressed Dialect. To the rescue came "The Birdman of The Hague," Zoologist Johann D. F. Hardenberg of the Ministry of Agriculture's fauna department. Called in by the Air Force and Amsterdam's airport, Hardenberg's first move was to import an American invention, a loudspeaker playing the tape-recorded distress calls of American herring gulls. It was an imaginative effort, but it did not work. Dutch herring gulls apparently speak a dialect all their own and are not alarmed by the screams of their American cousins. When Dr. Hardenberg recorded distressed Dutch gulls and a Jeep...
...steel to the duty-free port of Antwerp, filed off its origin markings and cleverly forged papers to make it appear as if it came from Belgian mills, from which it could be imported at a low duty within the Common Market. East German machines are sometimes shipped to Amsterdam, where they are doctored and remarked as Swedish products to make a big saving on import duties. Some Germans have become "meat millionaires" by working the same dodge to bring in canned Yugoslavian horse meat - labeled beef goulash - and Ethiopian pork and beef. A meat company imported almost...
...practiced by Kelen and his collaborator Alois Derso, the art of caricature survives today mainly in the work of newspaper editorial cartoonists, the best of whom-Bill Mauldin, Herblock, Paul Conrad of the Denver Post, Fritz Behrendt of Amsterdam's Algemeen Handelsblad-can transcend mere exaggeration to reach with a few lines the essence of a subject's character. "It is not simply a matter of drawing a big nose bigger and a floppy ear floppier," Kelen writes. "It involves an evaluation of the inner man through his outward features. A caricature is an opinion." For 40 years...
...invited Russians never showed up, but 272 other tennis hopefuls did. Seventy-six players from 28 nations on both sides of the Iron Curtain even whizzed in on a chartered plane from Amsterdam, poor-mouthing in many tongues that they were used to clay courts and expected to play miserably on the grass. Australia sent seven men, and the Common Market chipped in two each from Belgium and The Netherlands, four from France, three from Germany and one from Italy. But for the first time in the eight dreary years since Tony Trabert won the men's singles...