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Like their counterparts at Berkeley, the Provos (provokers) of Amsterdam are always good for a chuckle. A well-organized group of young artists, writers, intellectuals and university students, they are opposed to just about everything. They have urged the government to paint all Amsterdam chimneys white to eliminate smoke and soot. They have also printed dynamite recipes for anyone interested in blowing up the burgomaster's house. When Crown Princess Beatrix married West German Diplomat Claus von Amsberg last March, they threatened to spike the city's water supply with LSD and stampede the horse-drawn wedding coach...
Since January, the rate of stock slippage has stepped up. Thus, Zurich values are down 6½% this year. Amsterdam is down 8½%, the German Herstatt index is off 12½% and Paris Bourse prices are down 2½%. There is one bright spot on the European market scene: after a very bad 1965, stoic British investors, convinced that inflation is here to stay and that stocks are the best protection, have upped the 'London Exchange 5.5% this year. And some groups of stocks, including gas, because of recent North Sea discoveries, and aircraft, because of improved profits...
...totally overlook the command of Canon 5, requiring a defense lawyer to use "all fair and honorable means." To Bress, "This can only mean defending without the use of known perjury." In a letter to the Washington grievance committee, on the other hand, University of Pennsylvania Law Professor Anthony Amsterdam defended Freedman's original lecture as "a probing and responsible attempt to answer difficult and intensely practical problems created by our adversary system." Thus far, says Amsterdam, the organized U.S. bar has offered no better answers than "vaporous platitudes called canons of ethics which have somewhat less usefulness...
...sits red-and green-eyed as other women-coifed and dressed in their finest at midday-win money and refrigerators and play charades ("lie, czar, rust . . . Lazarus!") with real, live, ever-popular, never-to-be-forgotten celebrities such as Alan King, Tom Poston, Morey Amsterdam, and what's-his-name...
Actually, when it comes to making symphony music, the Old World is not only inferior to the U.S., it isn't even old. The New York Philharmonic, for example, was founded in 1842, is 40 years older than the Berlin Philharmonic; the St. Louis Symphony (1885) predates both Amsterdam's Concertgebouw Orchestra and the London Symphony. Indeed, by most any yardstick, U.S. orchestras outstrip their counterparts on the Continent. Last season the Vienna Philharmonic performed 50 concerts and the London Symphony 32, while the Philadelphia Orchestra played 179 and the Boston Symphony 206. Of the world...