Word: fernando
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Into Rome's White House, the Quirinal palace, last week slipped a familiar visitor. Seven weeks after the downfall of Antonio Segni's center-right government and one week after the failure of Fernando Tambroni to form a rightist government nakedly dependent on Italy's neo-Fascists for a parliamentary majority, tough little Amintore Fanfani, 52, was asked to paste together another Christian-Democratic coalition...
...couple of well-heeled outlanders have recently edged into the territory the Times considers its own. In February, the Cowles organization moved west with the purchase by the Minneapolis Star and Tribune of the suburban San Fernando Valley Times (circ. 50,190). In March, Brush-Moore Newspapers Inc., a solidly profitable chain with nine other dailies in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland, bought the fast-growing San Gabriel Valley Tribune (circ...
...Fernando Alvarez de Sotomayor, late director of Madrid's Prado: "Restoration is necessary. You have to do it with great care, but you have to do it. We can be proud of the work Spanish restorers do, but in most other European museums the work is not so good. For instance, I have been told of a Velasquez portrait of Philip IV in London's National Gallery which after restoration is a very bad picture. We have another Velasquez portrait of the same king, which originally was not so good as the one in London. Now ours...
...Died. Fernando Alvarez de Sotomayor, 84, Spanish portrait painter (among his subjects: ex-King Alphonso XIII, Portugal's Dictator Salazar), who headed the famed Prado Museum from 1921 to 1936, was succeeded by Pablo Picasso during the civil war, regained the post after Franco's victory; of a heart attack; in Madrid...
...Argentina, the press made much out of reporting that the enthusiastic reception at seaside Mar del Plata had moved the President of the U.S. to a public display of warm and very human tears. In Brazil, acting Foreign Minister Fernando Ramos de Alencar reflected that "to us who shook hands with him, it was like being visited by Santa Claus." In Chile, lanky, Lincolnesque President Jorge Alessandri toasted Eisenhower: "You have conquered our hearts." In Uruguay, Eduardo Victor Haedo, a federal councilman who will rotate into the council presidency next year, said: "Eisenhower's personal history and the policy...