Word: alberto
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...issue. Panama wisely began an integrated plan of land development in 1956; Venezuela, starting in 1959. has already moved 30,000 new farm families onto 2,500,000 acres under President Romulo Betancourt's crash program. Brazil's Janio Quadros and Colombia's Alberto Lleras Camargo are pushing comprehensive reform and agrarian-development laws through their Congress...
Style for Its Own Sake. The pattern of what Alberto Moravia aptly calls Hemingway's "ingenuous nihilism" was early set, but even Hemingway could not sustain himself on nada, or on bread alone. If life was a short day's journey from nothingness to nothingness, there still had to be some meaning to the "performance en route." In Hemingway's view, the universal moral standard was nonexistent, but there were the clique moralities of the sportsman or the soldier, or, in his own case, the writer. So he invented the Code Hero, the code being "what...
...young German officer, Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin. After he retired from the Kaiser's army, in 1891, Zeppelin dedicated his life to perfecting giant rigid dirigibles-built around a metal skeleton-that would retain their shape and could be guided. About the same time, a wealthy Brazilian, Alberto Santos-Dumont, developed the nonrigid dirigible and pleased girls by taking them on flights around Paris...
Based on a novel (TIME, May 12, 1958) by Alberto Moravia, Two Women tells how a Roman grocer's widow (Loren), sick of the war and scared of the bombing, packs her bags and takes her teen-aged daughter (Eleonora Brown) back to the mountain hut where she was born. There they work the stony fields and chatter away the evenings with the peasant women...
...been called "the last pirate of the Mediterranean," "a soul of the Middle Ages," and "the Rockefeller of Spain." None of these titles quite fits the fantastic career and character of Juan Alberto March y Ordinas, a stooped, eagle-beaked Spaniard who in his ninth decade is perhaps the world's most mysterious and powerful billionaire. Shrewd and ruthless, the shadowy figure of Juan March has floated across the face of Europe for more than half a century, bringing public officials low, underwriting dictators, helping to finance two world wars (on both sides), and buying himself virtual immunity from...