Word: espa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...covering the Pacific war on its battlegrounds, stayed overseas after V-J day as Shanghai bureau chief, reporting the collapse of the Nationalist Chinese; returning home, he was appointed editor in 1950 of LIFE'S fortnightly edition sent abroad, a post in which he helped launch LIFE EN ESPAÑOL and last year the Italian-language monthly PANORAMA, sponsored jointly by Time Inc. and Mondadori...
Christopher Columbus was delighted with his discovery, and wrote of the mountainous green Caribbean island he called La Isla Española: "So lovable, so tractable, so peaceable are these people. They love their neighbors as themselves, and their discourse is ever sweet and gentle, and accompanied by a smile...
Last week the President defined the aim of Alianza para el Progreso in an article he wrote for LIFE EN ESPAÑOL. The U.S. Latin American policy goal will be achieved, said the President, "only when every form of tyranny-either despotic rule at home or domination from abroad -is driven from the hemisphere." Last week, even a Latin America preoccupied with pre-Lenten carnivals could see that the President was out to give substance to his words...
...This is the most pleasant place on earth," said Christopher Columbus shortly after he set up his New World headquarters on Española, the Caribbean island now divided into Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Then, according to the legend, he added: "Here I will be buried." And there in 1898 his remains were enshrined in a new marble tomb in the cathedral at Santo Domingo, which is now called Ciudad Trujillo. That same year the navigator's descendants also buried his remains back in Spain in the family plot in Seville. The question ever since: Which tomb...
...Spain. Against Catalan pride, Premier Franco has banned the use of Catalan dialect in newspapers, suppressed Catalan courses in schools. The failure of his efforts was dramatized last week in a threat to the very existence of the biggest and best newspaper in Spain, Barcelona's La Vanguardia Espa...