Word: madrid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...legs" of trips. A "leg" may be anything from a New York-Washington flight to arranging (at the peak of the tourist season) passage for Correspondent Thomas Dozier and family on a ship from New York to Spain, where he is to take over this month as Madrid bureau chief...
Died. Jacinto Benavente y Martínez, 88, playwright (La Malquerida) and winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1922; of a heart ailment; in Madrid...
hospitals. Back in Madrid, meanwhile, Father Franco indicated that he might be willing to tolerate the pomp and pageantry of a Borbon restoration, provided, of course, that the real power behind the shaky throne remains his. He received Prince Juan Carlos, 16, son of Don Juan, pretender to the throne, and the prince's younger brother, Prince Alfonso, 13. In an official press release covering the princes' visit, Don Juan was significantly referred to as "august," a peculiarly monarchic adjective in Spain and a word applied officially to no blueblood since the abdication of King Alfonso XIII...
SPAIN'S IBERIA AIRLINES will start the first Madrid-to-New York service by a Spanish airline in August. Iberia, Spain's only overseas line, which has just taken delivery on the first of three Lockheed Super Constellations-to be called the Pinta, Nina and Santa Maria-will begin thrice-weekly service on Aug. 3, the same date Columbus set out for the new world 462 years...
Pictured beaming out from under their mantillas at a bullfight in a Madrid arena were two lovely exponents of greater Hispanola, Carmen, Marquesa de Villaverde, 27, toothsome daughter of Spain's Dictator Francisco Franco, and Maria de Los Angeles Trujillo, 15, whose father is the Dominican Republic's equally strong...