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...principle commercial activity centers on Calle de la Pricessa and Avenida de Jose Antonio, south of which lies a maze of twisting alleys lined by innumerable restaurants. This is the Madrid you see in brochures, the old part of town that converges on Plaza Mayor and Plaza del Sol. This part of the city brings the reality of Spain somewhat closer to the idealized conception: Here you can sit down to a meal of paella, the music of guitars in the distance, and know you're not in America any more...
...people's overwhelming belief in democracy and their joy at its deliverance. At week's end, millions filled the streets in nationwide demonstrations that were endorsed by all the major political parties. Nearly one-fourth of Madrid's population marched from Glorieta de Embajadores toward the Plaza de las Cortes. The festive mood was only slightly marred when ultrarightists set off three harmless bombs along the parade route. This time, at least, they were only a rude and futile gesture that hardly interrupted the chants of "Liberty, democracy and the constitution...
Speaking in the Boston Park Plaza Hotel at the conclusion of a two-day conference on "Blacks in Corporate America--Challenges of the Eighties," Mitchell urged the 350 B-School alumni, students and guests to combat racism on insure economic survival by founding firms and starting a national Black development bank...
Held at the Park Plaza Hotel in Boston, the conference lasted four days, ending yesterday with a plenary session of the General Assembly at which ten resolutions were passed...
...puzzlement. Even though the Ravel was a success, why does a major opera house try to produce dance, a project like Parade, when the American Ballet Theater will occupy its very premises in two months' time and George Balanchine reigns just across Lincoln Center Plaza...