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DUTY-FREE AIRPORT will open for intercontinental passengers at Amsterdam's Schiphol field, following the profitable pattern of Europe's first duty-free air terminal at Shannon (TIME, Aug. 27). Dutch port next month will start selling tax-free liquor, tobacco and candy, later add cameras, watches, perfume...
...stunned. "What did I do? Arrested for jazzing," he moans. "Call the ambassador!" Tears off shirt. Washes. Puts on green wool shirt. Doesn't want catch cold. After 45 minutes go by, has cooled off. Police let him out. Band and Hampton drop into bus, churn off to Schiphol Airport and fly off. Real gone...
...transatlantic DC-6B, with only twelve of 66 seats occupied, was just 25 miles from the safety of Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport. The pilot, Captain Charles Harman, 36, a veteran of 170 Atlantic crossings, was more than an hour ahead of schedule on a flight from New York's Idlewild Field. Some time in the next few minutes, the plane plummeted into the cold waters of the North Sea. Residents of the Dutch town of Schoorl reported that they heard an explosion, but no one knew what had gone wrong. All aboard were killed: 21 persons, including seven...
...with upwards of 1,200 tons of bombs. With that huge force were U.S. fighter types which made the escort possible-450 Thunderbolts and long-range Lightnings, all carrying belly tanks. As this mass attack returned and German fighters settled again on Lowlands fields, Marauders hit them there-at Schiphol near Amsterdam...
...have," he said, "made pictures of The Netherlands. Perhaps you saw my sketches of Schiphol Airdrome and the Eben Emael Fortress at Liége? And I also did some sketches of Paris. . . . Next I go to Turkey, they say, and then I am promised an opportunity to make sketches in Africa, the colors so sharp and clean-that will be good-the blue and the white, and sunlight in the desert. There should be good sketching in Cairo, don't you think...