Word: gonz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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 was cut to a mere five-eighths of an inch...
...first half of the 20th century shakes down into perspective, it seems certain that the art contribution of the Spanish contingent will bulk surprisingly large. Top banana of the bunch is, of course, Pablo Picasso. But there are also Juan Gris, pioneer Sculptor-Welder Julio González, Surrealists Joán Miró and Salvador Dali. And now another name is being nominated for the list: the late Manuel Martinez Hugué (1872-1945), better known simply as Manolo, whose small-scale bronzes and terra-cotta sculptures are the most earthy and most intensely Spanish art works...
...fanatic from the same mold as the assassin who last September killed Nicaragua's Dictator Anastasio Somoza. But Castillo's friends moved quickly to head off any Red comeback. His wife, outwardly calm, ran straight from the murder scene to call Vice President Luis Arturo González López. At a dawn emergency session, Congress named affable Lawyer-Landowner Arturo González López provisional president to serve until elections are held within four months...
...temperature soared to 104° in the shade, drivers wilted like limp lettuce, and some dropped out to recuperate from heat exhaustion every few laps on the burning 2.4-mile track. Cars changed hands so often that a partisan crowd, rooting for Argentine Favorite José Froilan González in his Italian Ferrari, often found itself cheering his teammates, France's Maurice Trintignant or Italy's Giuseppe Farina...
...shutdowns meant less daily bread for the workers. In Bilbao (pop. 230,000), factories and steel plants were rationed to 15 hours of power a week; unemployment soared, wages fell below subsistence. To alleviate the misery and to encourage the workers, Bilbao's energetic young Bishop Casimiro Morcillo González set up a mission whose motto was "Towards a Better Life." All week long, 300 priests used 2,000 loudspeakers to urge "Christian solidarity" for the workers, "social justice" from the employers, and quoted the Pope's words: "The workers, objects of my special love." Bilbao...