Word: bilbao
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There are a few errors of less significance. Not all bullfighters are "slim, tanned, and young." Rafael Ortega, still going strong in Bilbao and Barcelona, is fat, pasty, and forty-five. The ear and tail awards have nothing to do with crowd reaction. They are awarded by the President and judges. To the crowd, the President and Judges often seem deliberately perverse...
...Bilbao's Laboratorio Faes that Chemist Juan Socias made the drug (which the Spanish call FSR-3) under the guidance of Physician Luis Romero. Just a year ago, doctors began treating ten TB patients. Their experience was the same as that of U.S. researchers in all ways but one: two patients proved to be allergic to the drug, and its use in their cases had to be stopped. Next came a controlled test in which 20 patients got FSR-3, and ten who thought they were getting it actually got sugar pills. The 20 showed varying degrees of improvement...
...night 26 years ago, an unknown hand knocked three times at the door of a foundling home in Bilbao. The sister on duty waited the regulation three minutes to give the nocturnal caller time to retreat into the darkness, then she opened the door. In a wicker basket outside, a baby girl lay sleeping. "Take good care of my baby," said an unsigned note pinned to the basket. "Her name is Maria del Rosario. God protect...
...tall, corpulent, retired (65) engineer and widower, Don Francisco owns a handsome two-story house on the busy Calle de los Reyes Catolicos. He himself occupies the upper floor. Below are the offices of the Banco de Bilbao, which for 15 years has paid him a yearly rent of 12,000 pesetas ($1,080), now about one-tenth of what the landlord could get from a new tenant. Don Francisco pleaded inflation and asked for more rent from Bank Manager Jose Santamaria. Then he tried litigation. He got nowhere...
...Band Explodes. Next morning the Banco de Bilbao opened to a horrendous racket from above. The gypsies played with gusto. Don Francisco's maid screeched flamencos and his dog howled. Over & over again the musicians rendered such popular ditties as The Cowbell Song...