Word: guadarrama
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HEMINGWAY'S SPAIN: A LOVE AFFAIR (ABC, 9-10 p.m.). Jason Robards Jr. narrates a documentary on the scenes and people celebrated in the works of Ernest Hemingway. Film crews return to the ruins of the village of Valsain, the Sierra de Guadarrama, and the cities of Madrid, Malaga, San Sebastian and Cuenca. The program includes readings by Rod Steiger and Estelle Parsons and performance by Antonio Ordoñez, the bullfighter immortalized in "The Dangerous Summer...
Since Generalissimo Francisco Franco, 72, would ahunting go, Spain's entire Cabinet joined him at his "el Pardo" reserve in the frosty hills of Guadarrama. Though a number of ministers shivered under their parkas in the shooting stands, el Caudillo happily tilted his rifle at wild boar and stag, wearing merely a sweater beneath his business suit. At day's end, he democratically announced only the group's total bag of 76 assorted animals, one of which was nailed by Francisco Franco Martinez Bordiu, 11, the dictator's grandson and namesake...
Built on the rise of the Guadarrama mountain range 31 miles from Madrid, El Escorial casts such a gloomy aspect that the Romantic Poet Théophile Gautier called it the "granite debauch of Spain's Tiberius." Even its floor plan reflects a grim occasion. The monastery is named in honor of a humble 3rd century deacon who was burned alive on a gridiron by his Roman torturers. San Lorenzo, it is said, calmly instructed the Romans: "This side's done. You can turn me over now." His coolness under trial won him a lasting place in Spanish...
...were recruited into the ranks of the Blue Division that Franco sent to fight alongside the Nazis on the Eastern Front. Others were let out to labor on vast state projects: some 25,000 Civil War prisoners worked out the remainder of their sentences on Franco's monumental Guadarrama mountains Civil War Valhalla...