Word: naval
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Madrid journal, signing his pieces "Hispanicus," and he takes full credit for Spain's economic progress. Actually, much of the credit belongs to huge injections of cash and advice from abroad. Start of the money flow came even before Franco agreed to let the U.S. build air and naval bases on Spanish soil; in a decade the U.S. pumped $503 million into Spain in military aid alone. An even greater sum from abroad has gone to modernize the Spanish economy and implement the 1959 stabilization plan after Spain's disastrous inflation. The plan worked. The soaring prices leveled...
Moreover, Don Juan's own relations with Franco have warmed considerably-at least on the surface. Elaborate arrangements are now always made for refueling Don Juan's yacht in Spanish ports. Once, in Majorca, sailors from Spain's naval base were given liberty for the occasion of Don Juan's visit, and saluted the Saltillo, moving the Pretender to tears as he piloted the craft...
...Juan was a cadet in the Spanish naval academy near Cadiz when the news came on April 14, 1931, that the republic had been declared, and the royal family was rushing off to exile in France. That very night a torpedo boat hustled Don Juan off to join his parents. Recalls Don Juan: "I stood looking at those shores, and I thought I might never go back again. It was frightfully sad. At the bottom of one's heart, one could not help feeling that it was not for the good of the country." Like the Wandering...
...plane during an atomic war, they form the responsible vacationland democracy that their heritage calls for, and it gradually degenerates into anarchy, barbarism and murder. When adult rescue finally comes, they are a tribe of screaming painted savages hunting down their elected leader to tear him apart. The British naval officer who finds them says, "I should have thought that a pack of British boys would have been able to put up a better show than that." Then he goes back...
...original) and said there are no girls on the island because he does not believe that "sex has anything to do with humanity at this level." At 51, bearded, scholarly William Golding claims to have been writing for 44 years-through childhood in Cornwall, Oxford, wartime duty as a naval officer, and 19 years as a schoolmaster. Golding claims to be an optimist-emotionally if not intellectually-and has a humor that belies the gloomy themes of his allegories...