Word: madrid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...throttles wide open, the Star of the East, a DC-4 of Pan American World Airways' Cuban affiliate Aviacion Cubana, roared northeastward out of Bermuda's Kindley Field before dawn one day last week. Just after the takeoff, one of the four engines of the Madrid-to-Havana plane faltered. "I was just going to run to the front of the cabin and warn the passengers when we hit the water," Steward Orlando Lopez Suarez later recalled. "The tail broke off ... I found a rubber dinghy, but it was punctured and would not inflate . . . then the plane sank...
...Administrative Assistant: Emmet J. Hughes, 31, an editor of LIFE, former TIME & LIFE correspondent in Europe and onetime press attaché at the U.S. embassy in Madrid. An Eisenhower speechwriter and idea man during the campaign, Hughes will perform the same functions in Washington, and act as liaison man with the State Department on special assignments...
Painted about 1610, the 37 in. by 33 in. portrait was part of a private collection in Madrid, has only rarely been on public display. Kansas City, said the gallery, would see it next month, but no one would hint how much it had cost to bring El Greco's monk to Missouri. A good guess: well over...
...show was on Sunday, when 30,000 Falangists from all over Spain converged at Lion's Heights (35 miles northwest of Madrid), the Guadarrama pass dividing New and Old Castile. They cheered "Viva Giron!" when the swarthy Labor Minister cried: "For us, fighting is easy; we love war, we yearn for the feel of a gun in our hands!" The applause to his hour-long speech showed him as the only individual in Spain outside of Franco with personality and popularity of his own. As for Franco himself, his faint voice and prepared script were anticlimactic, as he declared...
After a 26-hour train trip from Paris, Rita Hayworth arrived in Madrid, without husband Aly Khan. Escorted by a group of Spanish playboys, Rita drove to a nearby town to watch Spain's No. I bullfighter, Luis Miguel Dominguin. Dominguin dedicated his bull to Rita ("The most beautiful woman in North America"), and Rita rose to acknowledge the honor ("Good luck to the handsomest man in Spain"). After he had killed his target, Dominguin gallantly presented Rita with the ears and the tail of the bull...