Word: lente
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...good salesman, Gallostra loved tall stories and long draughts of golden Manzanilla wine; he made friends with Spanish refugees as well as with Franco-loving aristocrats in the new world. In Mexico, officially registered as a "tourist," Gallostra granted Spanish visas, even lent money to Mexicans and to resident and refugee Spaniards who wanted to visit Spain (and whose names weren't on the Franco blacklist). He dreamed and labored for the day when Mexico would break relations with the impotent republican exile regime and recognize Franco Spain. He got many anonymous telephone calls threatening him with death...
...first day of Lent last week the bleary-eyed survivors took a look at the toll of casualties. This year's carnival had indeed outdone all others in the past. The score: 28 dead, 4,659 injured...
Down in New Orleans the people stop listening to jazz about this time, and begin enjoying the last Carnival Day before Lent. They do this chiefly by dressing up as people they couldn't possibly...
Prefabricated housing was still haunting RFC last week. Despite its disastrous experience with Lustron, where it poured a cool $37 million down a rathole (TIME, Sept. 12), RFC had lent about $2,400,000 to Reliance Homes of Lester, Pa. The money was' to be used to finance mass production of a low-cost, ribbed-aluminum, factory-built house. The three-bedroom house "package" came in seven sections, could be assembled on the site by a crane and five workmen (see cut) in 1½ hours. But Reliance found that the house, boxlike though it was, cost around...
...million that the Fund has lent, $737 million is still outstanding. Costa Rica and Nicaragua, the only other nations that have made payments so far, have paid up their combined balance of $7,000,000. Biggest single debt: Britain's $300 million...