Word: barcelona
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...just gotten too big for us. We have to refuse hundreds of people every day." Potholes & Safety Belts. The reason for Iberia's booming business is simply that flying is the best way to get around in Spain. By rail, the 312-mile trip to Barcelona from Madrid takes all day, costs $9.50 on a rattletrap train. Highway travel is just as bad-over narrow, potholed, mountainous roads. But in one of Iberia's 32 British and American planes (mostly Douglas DC-3s and DC-4s) the Barcelona trip takes less than two hours, costs only...
...Palacio de las Cabezas, manor house of a 100,000-acre ranch run by the Count of Ruiseñada. There, in well-barricaded privacy, Franco sat down to lunch with Pretender Don Juan (who was allowed back into Spain on a passport describing him as Count of Barcelona). It was their first meeting in six years, and Juan's first visit to Spain since the Civil War, 18 years...
With cod-liver oil and vitamins, veterinarians revived the monkey, the dogs and the bears. The eagle perked up on grain and fruit. By week's end all the beasts were feeling better, and the Barcelona zoo promised them a home. The midget, weak and undernourished, was installed in a home in Ciudad Real. All that remained of the abandoned circus was Sweikof the fox terrier, who lay down before the wagon of his absent master, and mournfully refused...
...Aime. In Barcelona, Spain, friends of Circus Acrobat Luis Raluys. who for ten years had been fired from a cannon by his wife, made public his explanation for his retirement: "Her aim has gotten so bad I've been in the hospital 17 times. The last time she fired me I landed in the lions' cage. Ive had enough...
Falla: La Vida Breve (Victoria de los Angeles, Emilio Paya; Barcelona Opera Symphony conducted by Ernesto Halffter; Victor, 2 LPs). Written when he was nearly 30 (in 1905), this opera was chosen by Composer de Falla himself as his Op. 1. It starts as leisurely as a siesta, builds its tale of faithless love and sudden death (of a broken heart) to a warm climax. Soprano de los Angeles sings like a bird...