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Gaudi's largest and most fantastic work is Barcelona's awesome stone, iron and cement Church of the Holy Family. He spent 40 years on its honeycombed towers and the weird, grotto-like encrustations of its walls, but it was still unfinished when he died...
...House of Cords. This week Barcelona admirers are commemorating the centennial year of Gaudi's birth with a fund-raising campaign to complete his masterpiece, and with an exhibit of photographs, drawings and models reviewing his strange career...
...thundering 21-gun salute from an unseen man-o'-war rumbled in the fog off Barcelona harbor. Ancient Spanish cannon in the fort protecting the harbor bellowed their reply. Out of the mist loomed two U.S. cruisers and three destroyers. It was the U.S. Sixth Fleet's first operational visit in Franco's day, to Spain's well-sheltered Mediterranean ports. All told, 30 U.S. warships, including the 45,000-ton aircraft carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt, the carrier Tarawa (27,100 tons) and three heavy cruisers, steamed into eight Spanish ports last week...
Both sides made pretty speeches. In Majorca, Rear Admiral William S. Parsons announced: "The two most anti-Communist nations in Europe today are Turkey and Spain." Said pudgy Mayor Antonio Simarro of Barcelona, with a beaming smile: "We are looking forward to our future alliance...
...buyer had to pledge to pay off ?11 million sterling in delinquent interest to Barcelona's bondholders. To Buyer March that will be a pleasure, since he owns all the bonds and thus will pay ?11 million to himself out of Barcelona's fat profits. Spain's Dictator Franco, who would like to get U.S. venture capital to back projects in Spain, has hailed March's capture of Barcelona Traction as "audacious nationalism." It was so audacious it would probably scare U.S. risk capital away from Spain for a long time to come...