Word: madrid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Spain's Francisco Franco set out for hot, dry Ciudad Rodrigo last week to meet with Portuguese Dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, a rustle of speculation swept through Madrid. What, asked the wags, could bring the dictators out of their palaces in weather like this...
...many visiting American professors who have taught in Europe, few have had a more distinguished group of students than Economist Wayne M.c-Naughton of U.C.L.A. Attending his course on all-round American-style executivemanship at Madrid's School of Industrial Organization were some of Spain's most prominent businessmen and politicians, e.g., Lawyer Buenaventura Fernandez Crehuet, member of the Cortes, and Dr. Francisco Javier Fernandez Avila, brother of the director of the government's Industrial Productivity Commission. Though he had to work through an interpreter, McNaughton thought he was getting along just fine-until one day he decided...
...civil-war-torn Madrid, I.T. & T.'s 13-story Telefonica headquarters was shelled 184 times by Franco gunners, while retreating Loyalists threatened to blow it up as a suspected spy center. Ramrod-stiff Colonel Behn himself arrived to save I.T. & T.'s besieged fortress, eventually sold the whole Spanish company to Franco for $88 million. In Western Europe, Nazi expropriations cut the 40% income that I.T. & T. got from the subsidiary International Standard Electric, to zero. But in Rumania, Behn arrived in the nick of time, sold out for $13.8 million shortly before the country went over...
Iran's Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi and his comely Queen Soraya winged into Madrid for what was billed as a four-day state visit. But Spain's Dictator Francisco Franco was not the notable they came primarily to see. On their very first day in Madrid, the Shah called in the dean of Madrid University's medical school, Dr. Jesus Garcia Orcoyen, an internationally renowned gynecologist, and asked him to examine Soraya. Apparently at stake was their marriage. After six childless years with Soraya, the Shah, whose only child is a daughter by his first wife Fawzia...
...with spirit and sincerity, preferring to remember his friendly, good-humored fellowship, his personal warmth, his ever-ready refrigerator and ever-open bottle. Across the U.S. the editorial writers noted his passing, and even his professional journalistic enemies seemed sorry, in a way, to see him go. Manila and Madrid praised him, London and Paris derided him, Moscow fumed at him. Harry Truman said that he was "very sorry." Dwight Eisenhower extended "profound sympathy" to the widow, sent around a personal message as well...