Word: cranes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Madrid's broad Paseo de la Castellana, the heavy steel ball of a demolition crane slams relentlessly into the 19th century palace of the Marques de Selgas, making room for a high-rise apartment building. On the outskirts of the city, Dodge Darts are rolling out of a vast factory complex that less than a year ago was an empty field. Europe's biggest supermarket opened two years ago on the exclusive Calle Velázquez. In a dim, dark-paneled bar on the Avenida de las Americas, boys in long hair and girls in white Vartan stockings...
There was more clapping as Goldberg said that he had received "dilly-dallying" from Curry and then demanded a public apology from Crane...
...Crane, in turn, declared that he would make no apology, "I'll stack my record against Councillor Goldberg's anytime," he said. There was clapping...
...Crane, in proposing an amendment to the official reasons for dismissing Curry, suggested that one reason was that Goldberg's father, Mosier B. Goldberg, had not been appointed City Solicitor (Cambridge's chief legal officer). The elder Goldberg, after serving many years as assistant solicitor, became acting city solicitor last year, but Curry did make the appointment permanent. Goldberg subsequently retired...
...After Crane finished, Councillor Goldberg stood momentarily, and then in a loud, deeply angry voice he began shouting across the chamber at the ex-mayor...