Word: castilian
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...week returned to Burgos, a grey and Gothic city festooned with flags, flowers and triumphal arches. With him went almost everyone of importance in Spain: Cabinet ministers in frock coats, generals and admirals weighted down with medals, Falangists in blue shirts and white coats, and tens of thousands of Castilian peasants, stiffly dressed in their Sunday best. After High Mass and Te Deum in the 13th century cathedral, Dictator Franco went to the Plaza Mayor and told the crowd, in his reedy monotone, that he had defeated Communism and given his countrymen more than two decades of peace. He warned...
Sightseeing companies, whose business is tourists, are frequently confused by foreigners. A Los Angeles agency accepted a tour for a large party of wealthy Brazilians, who paid in advance for a driver who could speak their language. The agency provided a Mexican who spoke Castilian Spanish, was baffled when the Brazilians were not satisfied. Said the tour manager plaintively: "They wanted someone who could speak Portuguese Spanish." To help eliminate such troubles, Washington's Democratic Senator Warren G. Magnuson has introduced a bill to set up a federal U.S. tourist bureau...
Unsung Milton. Life for the 50 Cistercians at Poblet last week was one of winter's cold, cold joys. In rooms where the temperature averaged about 40° F., they devoted almost all their labors to the printing of books in Latin, Castilian and Catalan. Their printing equipment was up to the minute, but the only stove stood glowing in the doorkeeper's lodge. To that lodge came now and again a flint-faced, intensely devout blacksmith from the neighboring hamlet of Espluga de Francoli...
...Vanguardia's strange trouble began one Sunday last June during 10 o'clock Mass at Barcelona's San Ildefonso Church. Enraged that the sermon was being delivered in Catalan instead of Castilian, a plump, balding little man protested to a curate, left his card, and stormed out of the church shouting: "Catalan-lleno de mierda! The name on the card was that of Luis de Galinsoga, a Galician who has been La Vanguardia's Franco-appointed publisher since...
...jobs. At week's end Spain's major banks announced that they would probably change over to 8 to 3 too. Not satisfied with these changes. A.B.C. called for time clocks in offices. When the full meaning of a time clock was at last explained to one Castilian, he recoiled in horror. "The Spanish way of life," he said, "is finished...