Word: madrid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President de Gaulle shook hands. It was a businesslike welcome, with little pomp, and after they chatted for a few moments the two men parted for the night. It was late, and ahead for Ike were three hard days of talks with other Western leaders, brief stops at Madrid and Casablanca, and-having written a few pages of history himself-the long flight back to Washington and Christmas Eve at home...
There are cheap cardboard crèches, turned out by the thousands in busy factories, and there are others whose making is a joyful family tradition; one Madrid family lives in an apartment so small that their crèche completely fills it; they haul it up to the ceiling and sleep beneath. There are crèches in churches, in public squares, even in bars-a notable one is located in the English Bar in Nazareth...
Ernest Hemingway wrote The Killers before breakfast one morning in 1927, cabled it that day from Madrid to his editor, Maxwell Perkins, at Scribner's Magazine in New York, and has never changed one of its 2,000 words. Seen through the eyes of Nick Adams (i.e., young Hemingway), it is a brief, spare story that tells-mostly in a well-wrought ladder of dialogue-about two hired gunmen who have come to a small Michigan town to rub out a doublecrossing Swedish prizefighter. When The Killers appeared on CBS's Buick Electra Playhouse last week, the story...
...front page, once the unassailable domain of party catechisms, news stories surprisingly appeared, and the ponderous headlines (A CLEAR DEMONSTRATION OF THE UNITY OF THE SOVIET PEOPLE AND OF RALLYING AROUND THE COMMUNIST PARTY) became downright breezy (I VISITED THE VINNITSA SPY CENTER and BONN FLIRTS WITH MADRID). Pictures bloomed all over, and the subjects were gay: babies, dogs, water skiers and movie starlets...
...North Africa, and Spain's Generalissimo Franco to his tightly scheduled, 20,000-mile grand tour (TIME, Nov. 16); the President will invite Bourguiba aboard the cruiser Des Moines for an afternoon's conversation in the Bay of Tunis, will visit Franco on an overnight stop in Madrid while flying home from Paris...