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Word: cortese (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Aztec emperors used to vacation in Cuernavaca. Hernando Cortes claimed it for his own and built a palace and cathedral there. Tourists, expatriates, and weekenders who drive the 50 miles from Mexico City know it lovingly as the town of "eternal spring"; bougainvillea spills over its ancient walls and flowering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roman Catholics: A Joyful Place | 8/29/1969 | See Source »

"Conscious of my responsibility before God and history and taking into account the qualities to be found in the person of Prince Juan Carlos of Borbón, who has been perfectly trained to take up the high mission to which he might be called, I have decided to propose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spain: Back to the Borb | 8/1/1969 | See Source »

The next morning a delegation from the Cortes drove to the Prince's palace outside Madrid to inform him officially that he would succeed Franco as Chief of State when the Caudillo, now 76, steps down or dies. Later the same day, Juan Carlos, whose new official title is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spain: Back to the Borb | 8/1/1969 | See Source »

Yet last week, when Prince Juan Carlos Victor Maria de Borbón y Borbón was chosen to ascend the long-vacant Spanish throne-some day-there was no dancing in the streets of Madrid or other outbursts of public joy. The reasons for such restraint are largely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Chosen Prince | 8/1/1969 | See Source »

For years, Spain's favorite guessing game has centered on one question: Who would succeed Generalissimo Francisco Franco? Since Franco, "Caudillo of Spain by the grace of God," had pledged to restore a constitutional monarchy, the choice centered on the two surviving male members of Spain's long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spain: Clarifying the Succession | 7/25/1969 | See Source »

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