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...returned in the dark of night with the other three crew members, armed (according to the disk jockeys) with guns. The deejays tried to defend their quarters with iron bars but were outmuscled by the sailors. The captain cut the anchor, and a small tugboat dragged Mi Amigo into Amsterdam harbor. Charges and countercharges flew; a Dutch shipping inspector declared Mi Amigo unsafe to sail...
...weightiest objection to the Second Coming speculations is made by Protestant Theologian G.C. Berkouwer of Amsterdam in his volume on church dogmatics called The Return of Christ. The New Testament, argues Conservative Berkouwer, "rules out any attempt at calculation. To be curious on this score merely proves that one does not understand the events of history. The coming salvation can only be awaited in a state of complete preparedness." That would seem to be good advice. After all, the Gospels carry Jesus' own warning about expectation of the end: "Of that day or hour no one knows...
Virtually plotless, the film is a series of skits having to do with the efforts of M. Hulot and his fellow employees of the Altra auto company to get a new-model family camper from the firm's Paris plant to an auto show at Amsterdam. They are waylaid on the highways by a seemingly endless variety of motorized misfortunes, ranging from an elementary flat tire to an epic collision. Oddly, most of the movie is so slow that it seems to have been enacted under water. Watching Hulot (Tati) trying to make his way through mazes of automobiles...
...this was symbolized by the words TIME-and-LIFE-which became virtually a single word in the American idiom. Moreover, that double label will continue to exist: on the Time-Life Buildings in New York, Chicago, London, Paris, Amsterdam and Tokyo; on TIME-LIFE Books and Records, and other projects and products. Much of the experience and talent that constituted LIFE will be used and reflected by other Time Inc. enterprises, including TIME, which we hope will be joined by some of LIFE'S people. Although we are a very different magazine, we will...
...Kloosterman, professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Amsterdam, told the conference that approximately 70% of all babies born could be satisfactorily delivered by midwives. A substantial number already are?and not merely in the underdeveloped countries of Africa and Asia. Professional midwives handle the majority of normal births in such technologically advanced countries as Sweden, Germany and The Netherlands. In England, which has one of the world's most advanced health-care systems, 80% of all births are handled by midwives...