Word: rotterdamers
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...Holland, as well as among Denmark, Norway and Great Britain, all of whom front on the North Sea. Hope that these five nations could deal objectively with the issue looks dim. "It seems to us that countries that in past ages have had only trouble from the sea," said Rotterdam's Algemeen Dagblad, "now should be allowed to have full profits from that sea." With similar reactions echoing through other capitals, the signs were for a hot and disputatious summer along the sandy shores of the North...
...know who we were. Which is not to say we overrated ourselves, as the seaman doesn't stand too high. But having been flung about we knew how to roll; and lost in the cold woods outside Antwerp or thrown into polite high living at the AMVJ in Rotterdam, we could stand with these formidable foreigners and make conversation, and get the hell back. That skill is the traveller's; but we weren't travellers, really, and for us the skill was a measure of maturity...
...hardly that grim. Remembrance, what I have excluded, tends to flood back; the Mass River at night, with lights from cranes cutting the sky as though Rotterdam expected the bombers again; Curacao in the early morning, dry caked and smelling of oil; the union hall and the member who motions to "Kick all the winos, finks, and faggots out of the NMU!" (Curran replied "What d'ye want, a non-paying union?" General laughter...
...week's end, as he and his party boarded the S.S. Rotterdam, Tito got a noisy send-off from his own U.N. delegation and from a band of uninvited demonstrators. Exuding good will, the boss of Yugoslavia extended his best wishes to the American people "for their well-being and further progress, and also to express my hope that normal friendly relations marked by stability will prevail." With that, the gangplank was raised, the Rotterdam tooted goodbye, the pickets lowered their standards, and the U.S. State Department sighed with relief...
...Hilton that hangs in every Hilton lobby. At the New York opening, some wayward members of the press took their whisky by the bottle instead of the drink, someone painted a swastika on a Dong Kingman mural and the overzealous door guards tried to keep out Mayor Wagner. In Rotterdam all the lights went out while most of the guests were dressing for the party...