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...world's oldest profession for a reason. It can't be stamped out. It at least ought to be legalized and regulated." That may be a long time coming, though not for reasons of law and law enforcement. Although he notes that legalized prostitution seems to work well in Amsterdam, Florida Prosecutor Leonard Glick warns that legalization along with necessary police protection is "not politically feasible in this country. The puritanic heritage of Americans just won't allow...
Frank Hawkins Amsterdam...
...master compositions effortlessly. After playing a piece two or three times, he would have it memorized. (He still has more than a thousand works, including his transcriptions of symphony movements and arias, at his fingertips.) Nyiregyházi proved so extraordinary a child prodigy that the Psychological Laboratory in Amsterdam began a four-year study of him when he was seven. It found that his precocity was similar to that of the child Mozart. At eight, he read all of Shakespeare in German translation; at ten came Dostoevsky and Tolstoy...
Rosalie A. Riccio Amsterdam...
...Mifflin; $7.95). The Dutch-born author, 47, who has sojourned in many exotic places and once lived in a Buddhist monastery in Japan, now inhabits Maine and writes cleaner English prose than many a Yankee aspirant. However, his stories are still set, with occasional departures (The Japanese Corpse), in Amsterdam, where his sleuths have taken over the turf once occupied by Nicolas Freeling's late, lamented Inspector Van der Valk. Van de Wetering's latest Dutch treat, starring the familiar trio of Detectives Grijpstra and de Gier and their commissaris, is cerebral, comradely and sensual, within the generous...