Word: cordoba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pull ancient carriages along streets lined with orange trees toward the world's largest Gothic cathedral. But across the Guadalquivir, tens of thousands of spinning bobbins turn raw cotton and wool into finished fabric in one of Europe's largest textile plants. In the main square of Cordoba, an Arab caliphate for 250 years, a transcribed electric guitar chimes the hour in flamenco rhythm. In Bilbao, shipyards work round the clock to keep pace with orders for merchant vessels from all over the world-including Communist Poland and Cuba. "Everything is changing in Spain," says Industrialist Eduardo Barreiros...
...Symbol. And a fetish is what El Cordobés is. An orphan named Manuel Benitez who grew up on the streets of Cordoba and broke into bullfighting the hard way-by jumping into the Madrid ring from his seat in the stands-he is every Spaniard's dream of the poor boy who made good. He owns four ranches, a fleet of Mercedes and a six-seat private plane, and is building a seven-story hotel in Cordoba. With his serious young face, battered body and brilliant white smile, he has also become Spain's leading...
...Peronistas' Popular Union Party and other neo-Peronista parties again rolled up 35% of the popular vote, won 44 seats for a total of 52, even captured populous Buenos Aires province and the neighboring province of Cordoba, home of President Arturo Illia and a longtime stronghold of his People's Radicals party. Illia's party finished with only 27% of the vote and a total of 70 seats in the Chamber of Deputies. "We have shown," said one Peronista leader, "that we are No. 1. The decision of the people is clear...
...Gaulle's Caravelle jet touched down at Buenos Aires' Aeroparque than shrieking crowds of Peronistas hoisted banners proclaiming "De Gaulle, Perón, tercera positión" (third position). But that was nothing compared to the swirling mobs in the central industrial city (primarily autos) of Cordoba, which De Gaulle visited for five uncomfortable hours...
...Them & Them Alone." Illia, of course, was badly embarrassed (Cordoba is his home town), and once again Argentina was shown to be a sorely divided nation lacking leadership. But De Gaulle was on the spot too, and there was no satisfactory way for him to get off it. Any wave to the Peronista crowd would be interpreted as support of anti-government forces, and he had no desire to make a formal anti-Perón statement. He did the best he could under the circumstances, retreated into the icy aloofness he has been striving to avoid. "The matter concerns...