Word: amsterdamers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Returning to The Netherlands, Hegger studied at the Calvinist Free University in Amsterdam, incorporated a foundation for ex-priests called "On Straight Street. '' * began publishing a monthly magazine that now claims a circulation of 13,000. He married a woman he met a year after quitting the church, and began using their home as a temporary haven for ex-clergy...
Gangrene is not the same as tetanus, but the bacilli that cause both problems are closely related; they-and possibly also the poisons they make-are destroyed by an excess of oxygen. The Surgery report was by Dr. I. Boerema and his colleagues at Amsterdam's Wilhelmina Hospital, but a hasty transatlantic call failed to reach Dr. Boerema. Eventually an assistant gave the necessary information, and with the consent of Douma's family, the Chicago Heights team decided to go ahead...
...Amsterdam Exchange maintained the appearance of stolid Dutch calm so well that in the midst of a sell-off that sent Philips Lamp plummeting from $205 to $185, a tourist wandered onto the floor under the impression that he was in a museum...
...Some of the noblest names were borne by hard-working royals such as Britain's globe-trotting Princess Alexandra and Dr. Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia, a grandson of Kaiser Wilhelm II who once worked as a mechanic in a Detroit auto plant. Going Dutch with their Queen, Amsterdam's city fathers contributed $28,000 to the royal revels, while 1,500,000 loyal Dutchmen enthusiastically lined the city's ancient canals to roar "Hiep, hiep, hoera!" and sing a patriotic song called Tulips of Amsterdam, Offered to You, Our Queen...
...that the Hohenzollerns could catch up with the Habsburgs. and young princes with eligible princesses. Queen Juliana democratically lodged all 130 guests at Amsterdam's plush Amstel Hotel instead of scattering them through her own draughty palaces. (Hotel bill: $7,000.) She showed equal sense when it turned out that a royal expedition to the famed Keukenhof tulip fields would have to buck traffic jams swollen by a European soccer cup final in Amsterdam. Instead of sending her guests by car or state coach, Juliana packed them into three buses, each specially equipped with a bar. and the riders...