Word: gonzalez
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Absolve. Back in the cabin, Padre Carlos Gonzalez Salas, 34, of Tampico, Mexico, a tall, athletic-looking priest with the skin of an Indian, was chatting with his seat mate and looking out of the window. Gradually he began to realize that something was wrong. When a crew member explained the situation to the passengers, Padre Gonzalez Salas clutched his scapular and said a prayer. "I began," he said later, "to experience a great feeling of anxiety...
...circled over Bermuda to lighten its gasoline load and give the crew time to prepare the 25 passengers with pillows beneath their safety belts and show them how to hold their heads down before the crash. Some of the children began to cry. An old lady became hysterical. Padre Gonzalez Salas prayed harder. One of the passengers asked him for absolution. With permission from Captain Rein-Loring, the priest went through the plane preparing his fellow passengers for death with the act of contrition and prayer...
...plane circled for its landing, Padre Gonzalez Salas quietly pledged himself, if the passengers were saved, to crawl on his hands and knees from the bottom to the top of the Spanish hill called Cerro de Los Angeles. At last the Constellation seemed to hover for a moment over the runway; then it touched and skidded, screaming and careening, while a U.S. Air Force crash truck sped alongside ready to spray it with a flame-extinguishing foam...
Knees Among the Stones. On a grey, cold morning in Spain last week, Padre Carlos Gonzalez Salas rose early in Madrid, where he had come from his philosophy studies at Salamanca's Universidad Pontifica. After Mass and breakfast, he climbed into a borrowed car and set out with his cousin and another priest for Cerro de Los Angeles, eight miles south of the city. This rugged hill is the exact geographical center of Spain. On its top once stood a huge monument, topped by a statue of Christ, which Communists dynamited during the civil war; since then, a smaller...
...more fiery spirit was the late Spanish-born Julio Gonzalez, son of a Barcelona goldsmith. A tutor to fellow Barcelones Pablo Picasso, Gonzalez hammered out of sheet iron figures in praise of the peasant girls of his native land (see cut). Among the first of the Americans was Mobile-Master Alexander Calder, who strung together cut-out metal forms to create a moving, pulsating world of abstract form slowly moving in space...