Word: cambo
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...nations directly border on the battlefields of South Viet Nam, Cambo dia and Laos. Both are nominally neutral, both are headed by princes, both are inevitably caught up in the struggle of Southeast Asia. Last week each of the princes offered rare public observations on the ambiguities of neutrality so close to the shooting. > Cambodian Prince Norodom Siha nouk's neutrality for his nation is self-styled in faintly Peking tints. His Royal Khmer army is Communist-armed and equipped. Though he has broken off diplomatic relations with the U.S. for alleged border violations, Sihanouk conveniently ignores...
...world's richest private collections, amassed by Spain's late Francisco de Assis Cambo, was back home last week after a 3½-year tug of war between Argentina and Spain. As the cream of the collection was readied for hanging in Barcelona's Museo de Arte de Cataluna, Spaniards discovered that the prize was well worth the haggling. Spread out before them was an eye-filling feast of masterpieces by Spaniards Zurburan, Murillo and Goya and such other masters as Rubens, Cranach, Tiepolo, Botticelli and Correggio...
...spent a lifetime collecting this treasure-trove was a proud, bantam-sized Catalan who exploded onto the political scene in 1901 as founder of a Catalan regionalist party, rose to fame as an ardent spokesman for Catalonian autonomy. Hand in hand with Cambo's political success went his reputation as a financial wizard and "the Andrew Mellon of Spain." When Cambo's political party went down to defeat at the polls on the verge of Spain's civil war, Cambo wisely decamped, ended up in Buenos Aires, where he lived handsomely on the returns of his insurance...
...death in 1947 Cambo left most of the cash in his $25 million fortune to charity; the bulk of his art treasures, spread out over the six houses he owned in Europe, Argentina and New York, were willed to his home city, Barcelona. When Barcelona claimed the paintings, agreeing to pay $56,340 in death duties, Peron's government slapped an embargo on the old masters in Cambo's palatial Buenos Aires residence. Only last year, when diplomatic tempers had reached the boiling point, did Argentina relent...
Easily a favorite in the whole Cambo bequest is Goya's classical allegory, Cupid and Psyche. It displays against the neoclassic decor the same kind of full-bosomed, dark-haired beauty that Goya showed as his feminine ideal in his famous Nude Maja. The scarlet-draped Cupid, with muscular body yet almost feminine features, complements her as the idealized lover...