Word: madrid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...part of the prefight coverage in Madrid's daily Pueblo, and the dramatic, portentous tone was by no means inappropriate. All Spain was indeed locked into the recent match between West Germany's Peter Weiland and the new idol of Iberia, José Manuel Ibar Urtain, 26, a heavy-thewed, bull-necked Basque whose professional record showed 27 fights and 27 knockouts...
...flabby 232 lbs., had fairly waddled around the ring, that at one point he had all but apologized to Urtain for landing a punch, that after he had been counted out he bounced back to his feet. What did matter to the sellout crowd of 13,000 at Madrid's Sports Palace was that Spain had its first European heavyweight champion in 37 years?and at last Spanish sport had a Numero Uno to lead the nation out of the doldrums of bad bulls and mediocre matadors...
...fighters shattered the Spanish noon last week, a Medieval-looking man patrolled the runway of the joint U.S.-Spanish airbase at Torrejón near Madrid. On his outstretched hand perched a hooded peregrine falcon. A strange place to practice the ancient art of falconry? Not quite: the U.S. Air Force has drafted the regal birds of prey to chase flocks of little bustards that endanger aircraft...