Word: madrid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...against toleration. A gang of well-dressed young men burst into the tiny, secluded Protestant chapel of St. Basil, struck Pastor Santos Martin Molin in the face, poured gasoline over the altar and tried to set the church afire. Said a Spanish government spokesman: "A negligible, isolated incident." In Madrid, a Protestant pastor brandished a pamphlet published by a Catholic organization, in which Protestants were denounced as "libertines, women of easy virtue and traitors to their country." "This sort of propaganda," he said, "is bound to fire hotheads...
After a visit to Spain, Major General Charles Willoughby (ret.), longtime intelligence officer for General MacArthur, announced that he would rent an apartment and live in Madrid. Said he: "I feel much safer in Madrid behind the Pyrenees than in Paris behind the Rhine...
...Madrid last week, another one turned up that must have pleased St. Teresa more. A 14-by-10-in. oil painting, it shows her as a handsome, sensitive-featured woman in her early forties...
...Ahumada family of Malaga, to which St. Teresa's mother belonged. Only a few friends of the family ever saw it. No one but the head of the house was allowed even to touch it. But now, short of funds, the family has put it on the market. Madrid experts have pronounced it a genuine 16th century painting by an anonymous artist of the Toledo school, and historians have vouched for the authenticity of an inscription on the reverse of the painting which traces its history back as far as 1643. Spain's board of fine arts...
...promising research projects that were disrupted [by war] ... of the assembly of the finest mathematical faculty in the world at Göttingen which was scattered by Hitler's terrorism, of the health institute in Tokyo which became a military headquarters, of a physics institute in Madrid standing isolated and unused . . ." But over the years, the foundation has had much to compensate for such setbacks. It has been such a vast catalyst to achievement that even old John D. was awed. "We have built," said he to Frederick Gates in 1924, "better than we knew." In 1952, with...