Word: eduardo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with the Loyalists (his brother, now his business partner, served with Franco), migrated via a concentration camp to Mexico in 1939. Fascinated as a boy with the way Spanish masons formed domes of hollow bricks, Candela went on to study the reinforced-concrete forms developed by Spain's Eduardo Torroja and Switzerland's Robert Maillart. In 1950 Candela made his-mark by designing (with Architect Jorge González Reyna) a concrete shell for Mexico's University City Cosmic Ray Pavilion so precisely engineered that its minimum thickness where it had to carry little weight...
...impressions. Jackson Pollock was the most important, they decided. Mark Rothko's shimmering panels of color were their favorites, followed by the works of Clyfford Still (TIME, Nov. 25), Franz Kline, Philip Guston. Sam Francis. The qualities most admired: "furious vitality," "unbiased liberty," "a renovating spirit." Cried Critic Eduardo Cirlot: "The most important show that Spain has seen in the last 25 years. There's no doubt that American artists are the vanguard of the world...
...jury crowned an American painter. Winner of the international painting award ($2,400): Wisconsin-born Seattle Painter Mark Tobey, 67 (TiME, July 22), whose sensitive oils of squirming lines of light had already attracted critical applause. Top international prize for sculpture ($2,400) went to Spain's Eduardo Chillida, 34, whose spiky forgings were among the most avant-garde entries...
...their seats they would survive; if they tried to climb out, or touched metal, they would probably be electrocuted. Woodenly, 19 survivors huddled inside, gasped as they heard Melanie Jane whimpering close by. As the lightning flashed they could see the baby crawling back toward the bus. Chicago-bound Eduardo Ramos shouted for her to go back, to stay away. But in each glimpse she came closer. Suddenly, after an agonizing half-hour, there was a quick hiss of sparks. Said Eduardo Ramos: "The baby was quiet then. We couldn't hear it crying any more...
Militarily, the next try, just three months later, was even less brilliant. The rebels under General Eduardo Lonardi took inland Cordoba, but General Aramburu, attempting to subvert the garrison at Curuzu Cuatia, had to get out afoot when Perón poured reinforcements against him. After three days of fighting, Perón's general staff in Buenos Aires correctly concluded that it could contain the uprising-and it probably would have, except for a rebel admiral named Isaac Rojas, who had commanded the uprising at a naval base, was now heading for the capital in the captured cruiser...