Word: amsterdamers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jackson and Correspondent Robert B. Kaiser, with reaction reports from correspondents in Paris, Geneva, Brussels, Amsterdam, Bonn, London, Boston, Chicago, Washington and Los Angeles, was written against great deadline pressure by Religion Writer John T. Elson and edited by Senior Editor William Forbis. The cover itself is from the last publicly distributed photograph of John taken on May 25. He was recording a radio broadcast at the Vatican to the faith ful of the sanctuary of Piekary in Poland, a traditional message sent on the last Sunday of May each year. The next day he fell critically...
Elaine de Kooning paints only people who interest her-cops, collectors, critics, or a bunch of teen-aged slum kids she calls the Burghers of Amsterdam Avenue. Viewers who do not know her subjects personally may get an uneasy feeling that the work is sometimes slapdash, sometimes arbitrary. The judgment would be wrong, for the portraits are virtually instant summaries-the unconscious summing up that one friend makes of another when the two unexpectedly meet...
...that, all right. Rajakowitsch traveled as Eichmann's deputy to Czechoslovakia, Poland and Berlin; then, in 1941 he was rushed to The Netherlands, where intermittent month-long protest riots had broken out in major cities after the Nazis' first raid on the Jewish quarter of Amsterdam. Rajakowitsch soon got the roundups rolling smoothly. As boss of the dreaded Section IV-B-4 (Special Office for Jewish Affairs) in Holland, he was so thorough that when he was asked to spare a handful of Jews of Portuguese origin, he declared, "Jews are Jews...
...come the girls of the Madeleine, the Gare Montparnasse. Place Pigalle and Les Halles. Britain's Street Offenses Act, passed in 1959, has ended the processions of undulating whores that used to fill up Piccadilly Circus, Bayswater Road and Hyde Park. Borrowing a trick from their sisters in Amsterdam, many London prostitutes now sit at the upper windows of scruffy Soho flats for which they pay as much as $150 per week...
...distillers are now following the light. Schenley has expanded its Long John Distilleries in Scotland, and National Distillers will soon start importing an extralight Scotch. Kentucky's Brown-Forman has diversified from its heavy commitment to bourbons by importing Green Stripe Scotch and acquiring the U.S. rights to Amsterdam...