Word: guadarramas
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...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...
This summer the $40 million Valle de los Caidos (Valley of the Fallen) was thrown open to the public. It is built on a scale to rival the pyramids. On the rocky crest of one of the foothills of the snow-capped Guadarrama Range sits a sparkling, 5OO-ft., white granite cross, visible on a clear day from Madrid, 28 miles away. Beneath the cross, chipped out of the mountain's solid rock interior, is a huge crypt, 780 ft. long and richly inlaid with marble. The crypt leads to a basilica 130 ft. high, whose dome is adorned...
Just after sunset one night last week, a flight of U.S. Air Force B-47 jet bombers streaked across the purple Guadarrama Mountains and slid onto Western Europe's longest runway, the new 13,400-ft. strip of the U.S. Strategic Air Commands Torrejon Air Base, 13 miles northeast of Madrid. Looking down on the serried ranks of bombers on the once-empty apron, a U.S. control-tower operator crowed: "Man, are we ever in business...
...show was on Sunday, when 30,000 Falangists from all over Spain converged at Lion's Heights (35 miles northwest of Madrid), the Guadarrama pass dividing New and Old Castile. They cheered "Viva Giron!" when the swarthy Labor Minister cried: "For us, fighting is easy; we love war, we yearn for the feel of a gun in our hands!" The applause to his hour-long speech showed him as the only individual in Spain outside of Franco with personality and popularity of his own. As for Franco himself, his faint voice and prepared script were anticlimactic, as he declared...
...mission finished its job. It had steered clear of the social whirl which delights and hampers Madrid's official world with an average of 25 diplomatic cocktail parties a week. Finding official statistics totally unreliable, Sufrin & Co. had fanned out across the country. They hiked up the Pyrenees, Guadarrama and Cantabrian mountain ranges to have a firsthand look at hydroelectric plants. They poked underground in Asturias' and Galicia's coal pits, riding in shafts without safety devices. They visited factories, farms, fishing centers, shipyards. They talked with workers, industrialists, peasants and bureaucrats. They offered neither criticism...