Word: madrid
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...colleagues in the Senate, Kentucky's John Sherman Cooper (to India) and New Jersey's Robert Hendrickson (to New Zealand); an ex-governor, Connecticut's John Davis Lodge (to Spain); and six well seasoned career men, including James Dunn, a veteran of the Rome, Paris and Madrid embassies (to Brazil), James Bonbright, a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State (to Portugal), and Henry Byroade, razor-sharp former Assistant Secretary of State and Army brigadier general (to Egypt). By and large, these appointments signal a healthy upgrading of the nation's foreign representation...
...just ten years ago that a Junkers 52 left Berlin and headed for Madrid on the last Lufthansa flight. For the next decade, with airlines barred by the Allies, all Germans had left were memories of a once-great organization. On the eve of World War II, Lufthansa (founded in 1926) had 125 planes, flew more than a quarter-million passengers 73 million miles a year. It ranked as the world's second airline in passenger miles flown (first: Pan American). It pioneered the Europe-South America run in 1934; two years later it was one of the first...
...Adolfo Munoz Alonso, Spanish theologian and philosophy professor at the University of Madrid, found some Protestant leaflets in his morning's mail and went off like a cobalt bomb. Such literature, he wrote in the Falangist daily Arriba, is "simply an insult. This is not a social and political outrage but something even more repulsive-a lack of consideration." Nowadays, he wrote, Protestantism is not even a faith, "not a positive doctrine but a negative one. It is not an attempt at moral, spiritual or religious reform, nor an individualist explanation of the Gospel. Today Protestantism has lost...
Gradually, Francisco Franco's Spain has been emerging from the Nazi-Fascist doghouse in which it was locked at the end of World War II. In 1946 the U.N. passed a resolution that member states withdraw their ambassadors from Madrid, and that Spain be denied any affiliation with U.N. agencies. In 1950 the resolution was repealed, and Spain is now a member of UNESCO and six other U.N. agencies. Last week U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold went a little further: after repeated proddings from Madrid, he invited Spain to send an official observer to the U.N. * Francisco Franco...
Today, under President Jesus Rubio Paz, who started as a pilot in 1937, Iberia is beginning to expand into the transatlantic market. Last August the line inaugurated its first U.S.-Madrid flight with three nonstop Lockheed Super-Constellations, bought entirely with its own profits. Says President Paz, whose three new Super-Connies are named the Pinta, Niña, and Santa Maria, after Columbus' tiny fleet: "Our crossings will build a sort of aerial bridge, subtle and invisible, on the common ground of friendship...