Word: andalusia
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More than Money. Now 25, Lola was born and raised in a small town in Andalusia. A barkeeper's daughter, she began singing and dancing for her father's customers soon after she learned to talk and toddle. At 15 she made her first movie playing a flamenco artist. Since then, life has been a dizzying, prosperous round of flamencos on movie sets, stages and nightclub floors. Except for a few top matadors, she is Spain's highest-paid entertainer. For her tour of North and South America, which will take her to Havana, Rio, Buenos Aires...
...Authentic Blueblood." The legacy made all of Carmen's daydreams come true-a palace in Seville, a ranch in Andalusia, three houses in Granada, a mansion in San Sebastián, stocks, bonds, and millions of pesetas in cash. The Trigos were beside themselves with joy. They uncorked the Manzanilla. The janitor and some friends stopped in to see what the commotion was about and left to publish the good tidings. By morning the news had spread to the papers in Madrid. Gifts poured in from fashion houses and perfume firms. A local bank placed a 100,000-peseta...
...weekly, one Marqués de Castelvel, whose hobby is heraldry, pointed out that the title Escalona del Valle did not and never had existed in Spain. Newspapers sent their far-flung reporters scurrying. They found that there was no mansion in San Sebastián, no ranch in Andalusia, no palace in Seville, no stocks and no cash. When Valencia's Bureau of Criminal Investigation stepped in, the whole truth emerged: Faustino was not even a lawyer, but a law student who had flunked out; his documents were all forgeries...
...stream of settlers is changing the face of the country. Almost every Venezuelan town now has its Italian barbershop and restaurant, its German-speaking innkeeper. San Cristobal has a Russian photographer, Merida a Russian butcher. Near Turen, about 175 miles southwest of the capital, farmers from Andalusia, Tuscany and the Ukraine are tilling new lands cleared for them by government bulldozers. In time, Venezuela hopes, such immigrant pioneers may supply the eggs, fruit and other foodstuffs that the country now imports from...
Abdullah was scheduled to make a fortnight's tour of Spain, including Andalusia in the south, where his ancestors once ruled. A Spanish man-of-war will bear him home. Thus shrewd Francisco Franco would finish an important knot in the net with which he is trying to snare support in the Arab world...