Word: cadiz
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...last week, three impatient shrieks of a locomotive whistle shattered the morning calm of Sanlucar de Barra-meda, a small Spanish city in the grape country around Cadiz. On the dusty railroad platform, the stationmaster nervously paced back and forth waiting for the expected passengers, seasonal workers who commute to their jobs in the vineyards. But scarcely a soul showed up at the station, for in Sanlucar and nearby Jerez de la Frontera 3,900 workers were out on strike for a $2.50 daily wage (a 50? boost), portal-to-portal pay between the vineyard and home...
...negotiations stalled on the recognition issue, the news reached Washington that the French had taken Cadiz, the last stronghold of the Spanish revolutionists. In his diary, Secretary Adams recorded that Monroe was "alarmed," and that Secretary of War Calhoun was "perfectly moonstruck" with dismay...
...final curtain, the count had risen by another 77 corpses, with a crucifixion or two thrown in. A feast at the Villa of Crassus provided an excuse for a seduction scene (by Ballerina Natalia Ryzhenko) and some writhing by 15 Cadiz dancing girls, all of them bare considerably south of the navel. Khatchaturian's thunderous score omitted scarcely a single cliché of film music, and not even Plisetskaya was equal to the absurdities of her role as Spartacus' wife. As Spartacus himself, the Bolshoi introduced a giant (Dmitry Begak) who danced just about the way a giant...
...Juan was a cadet in the Spanish naval academy near Cadiz when the news came on April 14, 1931, that the republic had been declared, and the royal family was rushing off to exile in France. That very night a torpedo boat hustled Don Juan off to join his parents. Recalls Don Juan: "I stood looking at those shores, and I thought I might never go back again. It was frightfully sad. At the bottom of one's heart, one could not help feeling that it was not for the good of the country." Like the Wandering...
...industry moved a step closer to economica11y attractive pipeline transportation of its product. Since 1957 Cleveland Electric Illuminating Co. has fueled one of its generating plants with coal slurry (a mixture of crushed coal and water) brought in through a 108-mile pipeline from Consolidation Coal Co.'s Cadiz, Ohio, mine...