Word: francos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hitler and Mussolini threaten the world, Franco marches on Madrid...
...otherwise. Never an instrument of luscious quality, her soprano last week was a thin and often wobbly echo of the voice that fled the Met in 1958. Her high notes were shrill and achingly insecure, and seemed all the more so by contrast with the rich, ringing tenor of Franco Corelli as Mario. In the poignant Vissi d'Arte aria, Callas relied almost wholly on dramatic rather than vocal brilliance to carry her through-which, in her case, is admittedly a compelling compromise. The audience certainly thought so. At the curtain, a shower of roses and confetti rained down...
...Part of Franco's blockade consists of withholding labor from the Rock. Even before the dispute, Madrid stopped giving new work permits to Spaniards for Gibraltar jobs, and in ten years their number has fallen from 14,500 to 9,000. Some 800 Gibraltarians living on the mainland were recently ordered to leave Spain and to return to the colony. Traffic across the border is now slowed to a crawl by Spanish customs guards, who take a full hour to examine each car; scarcely 14 a day are cleared...
...citizens want no part of Spain's political system or sovereignty. Instead the elected members of the Legislative Council, led by Chief Member Sir Joshua Hassan, want full internal self-government in a free association with Britain. And they want Britain finally to take countermeasures against the Franco squeeze...
...Only 26 of them were in Rome. Following tradition, Archbishop Angel Herrera y Oria of Malaga received his from Spain's head of state, Francisco Franco...