Word: plana
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...afternoon. The bull was no longer the central figure of the confrontation; the cult of the matador had been born. Once, such disputations raged in the comfortable surroundings of a packed arena. Crowds this year have been skimpy everywhere since the season opened in Castellon de la Plana. They have been rebellious too. In Seville, the civil governor canceled a corrida because the bulls demonstrated "a shameless lack of liveliness...
...church," he said, "does not seek privileges or political tasks. It demands only liberty in exercising its mission." A few days later, Bishop Jerónimo Podesta, 46, leader of Buenos Aires' diocese of Avellaneda (pop. 1,200,000), went on record in the Buenos Aires magazine Primera Plana. "The church," he noted, "wants to serve the modern world, and this does not mean to serve such and such a government. Identification with any political regime would be harmful to the church." Meantime, several priests have circulated a petition asking Antonio Cardinal Caggiano to be less chummy with Ongan...
...Estate. In Velika Plana, Yugoslavia, a tombstone in the village cemetery bears the inscription: "Here rests Zdravko Paunovic with his first wife Stanojka. The tombstone is erected by his third wife Dolka, from the money of his second wife, Zivkat...