Word: alba
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Died. Jacobo Maria del Pilar Carlos Manuel Stuart Fitz-James y Falco, 74, 17th Duke of Alba de Tormes, Spain's wartime ambassador to the Court of St. James's; after long illness; in Lausanne, Switzerland. Grandest of Spain's grandees, he owned castles in almost every major city, had some 65 titles, including that of Duke of Berwick (a Stuart title not recognized by Britain). When civil war broke out in 1936, the Anglophile Duke sought to swing Britain to Franco's cause. After World War II, he disputed Franco's right to rule...
...Clarence Alba Davis, 60, Nebraska lawyer, to be departmental solicitor. Onetime general counsel of the state public-power agency, Davis opposes a federal Missouri Valley authority on the grounds that such projects should be run by the states concerned rather than by the national government...
...BEST OF HUSBANDS (343 pp.)-Alba de Cespedes-Macmillan...
Italian-born Alba de Cespedes, whose Cuban grandfather was the first President and liberator of Cuba, has a sharp eye for the kind of gritty marital incidents that set a man & wife's teeth on edge. In piling most of the evidence and all of the sympathv on her heroine's side, she writes like a shrewd attorney for the plaintiff, but reads, finally, like a somewhat shallow judge of human relations...
...World War II WACs went about the business of serving their country with more energy or application than slim, dark-eyed Alba Carmen Martinelli. Alba, one of six children of an immigrant Italian engineer, could speak Italian and French when she quit teaching school in Plymouth, Mass, to join the Army. She learned four more languages-Japanese, Chinese, Korean and Tibetan-studied at Stanford and the University of Virginia, and ended up as a major and an adviser to the Korean government...