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...IBERIA by James A. Michener. 818 pages. Random House...
Like Lufthansa, other foreign airlines are also taking pains to publicize their expenditures in the U.S. Spain's Iberia Air Lines, for example, has run U.S. newspaper ads that ask: "We buy your planes. Shouldn't you fly ours?" And this week Italy's Alitalia plans a similar ad, pointing out that its aircraft purchases and operating expenses in the U.S. will amount to some $1 billion...
...French impressionism and the Chopin-Liszt tradition to produce a heady and original style, flowing with romantic feeling yet tempered and refined by elegant workmanship. His six-part suite, Goyescas, which powerfully evokes the gaudy, sensual world of Goya's paintings and tapestries, stands with Albe-niz' Iberia at the pinnacle of the Spanish piano repertory...
...balance-of-payments deficit. Even so, some 1,500 Americans were still looking for a way home last week, including 250 at Shannon, Ireland, and about 400 in London, where a party of Massachusetts schoolteachers bedded down on airport couches. The strain in Spain was mainly to get aboard Iberia Airlines planes from Madrid to New York. Last week police quelled one fracas in which 19 irate tourists threatened to slug counter attendants and then stormed the runway gates when told that their supposedly confirmed reservations could not be honored...
...worth. Spain's stern moral codes were relaxed to permit bikinis on beaches where 15 years before men had been arrested for not wearing tops. Resort hotels sprouted in bunches, and the government added nine Spanish castles and monasteries to its own network of hostels and inns. Iberia airlines bought 18 new jets and more than doubled its flights to make Spanish beaches easier to reach...