Word: madrid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stepped off a plane at Madrid last September, followed by an efficient-looking retinue of 25 men & women, was a Ph.D. from Syracuse. Professor Sidney Sufrin had been hired by ECA to find out once & for all just how strong Francisco Franco's economy is, and what might be done to help it in the interests of Western Europe's defense...
Last week, two months ahead of schedule, the Sufrin mission finished its job. It had steered clear of the social whirl which delights and hampers Madrid's official world with an average of 25 diplomatic cocktail parties a week. Finding official statistics totally unreliable, Sufrin & Co. had fanned out across the country. They hiked up the Pyrenees, Guadarrama and Cantabrian mountain ranges to have a firsthand look at hydroelectric plants. They poked underground in Asturias' and Galicia's coal pits, riding in shafts without safety devices. They visited factories, farms, fishing centers, shipyards. They talked with workers...
Usable Luggage. In his Madrid apartment, preparing to leave for Washington, Professor Sufrin had his team's survey all wrapped up in a 180,000-word report; it included the first complete inventory of Spain's agricultural and industrial resources...
...coinmaker is one of mankind's oldest. To the coiner and his fellow craftsman, the medalist, has gone the job of commemorating history's great events and famous men. The result, when an artist like Benvenuto Cellini went to work, was often a miniature masterpiece. In Madrid last week the Spanish government staged a sweeping show of 2,000 years of coin and medal-making and, with exhibits from 42 countries, took stock of the modern medalist...
...great and near-great, eagles, lions and horses are still the favorite subjects. There is scant difference in style between a 16th Century coin likeness of Philip II of Spain and modern U.S. medallions of Henry Ford and Harry Truman. Among the most venturesome artists in the Madrid show were the Italians, and the venturesomeness was rewarded. Filippo Sgarlata's mildly impressionistic discs of hunters and shepherds won Madrid's first prize for artistic excellence. Pietro Giampaoli's profiles in stroboscopic sequence took second...