Word: franco
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years after the war, and like other German aircraft makers forced to observe a ten-year Allied ban on production, Messerschmitt turned to building sewing machines, prefab houses and three-wheel midget autos. In the early 1950s he again began to design planes, first in Spain for Franco and later in Germany...
...candidates. Despite his age, 73, and his Shermanesque talk of refusing election, Austria's Franz Cardinal König remains a possibility. Spain's Vicente Cardinal Enrique y Tarancon, 71, Archbishop of Madrid, has won a reputation as a courageous, liberalizing leader who declined to officiate at Franco's funeral but pointedly helped to crown King Juan Carlos. In a stalemate, the "Iberian bloc"-Portuguese, Spanish and Latin American votes-could swing behind him. A favorite of many in Latin America and elsewhere is Brazil's Aloisio Cardinal Lorscheider, 53, Archbishop of Fortaleza, president of Brazil...
...that matter, the Italians as well?are reluctant to tie the pound and other weak European currencies to the superstrong West German mark. Second, London feels that the scheme was somehow imposed on the rest of the Community by what it regards as a fast-developing and potentially dominant Franco-German alliance...
Another point of conflict was the proposed construction of a new, 200-seat B10 European Airbus, a mainly Franco-German project that is aimed ambitiously at loosening the U.S. hold on the world's commercial aircraft market. To enhance the Airbus' chances, the French and Germans have tried to persuade the British to join in its development, with a standing offer to build the wings and other key parts...
...Music knows neither frontiers nor race nor nationalism," the promoter told the crowd of 2,000 Italian and French jazz lovers. With that, Count Basie, 73, the grand old master of keyboard swing, stepped up to a piano placed smack on the Franco-Italian borderline on the Pont St. Ludovic, and with his band launched a medley of such crowd pleasers as Sweet Georgia Brown and Freckle Face. Meanwhile traffic was blocked on both the Italian and French sides of the bridge, and a cacophony of auto horns accompanied the Count. "I've played outdoors before but never like...