Word: prado
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manuel Prado's big campaign pitches when he was running for President last year was a promise to fight inflation with sol-searching* austerity. Last week, five months after his inauguration, the country's two top newspapers, El Comercio and La Prensa, both rapped him hard for breaking the promise. His first yearly budget had just emerged from Congress, at $254.6 million, the fattest in the nation's history and nearly 25% bigger than the last, spending-spree budget of President (1950-56) Manuel Odría, whom Candidate Prado had lambasted as a spendthrift. Old Soldier...
...Comercio, La Prensa (usually pro-Prado) and a lot of Peruvian businessmen, the President's freehandedness seemed dangerously inflationary. In a Lima restaurant, a Peruvian economist quipped: "If President Prado's budget is austerity, then this"-he held up a piece of Melba toast-"is a Nesselrode...
...budget surprised Peruvians not only because Prado had promised austerity but also because he is usually considered a conservative (he is a member of Peru's richest family). One widespread theory was that the aging, ailing President, besides wanting to keep the military and bureaucratic brass happy, was bent on giving his country plenty of public works to remember...
Petticoats of Portugal (Pérez Prado; RCA Victor). A rising tune whose simpering lyrics belong in tinseled nightclub surroundings, in its most palatable version. Cuban Bandleader Prado presents it in slow mambo rhythm, and mercifully omits all vocals except for one Pradian grunt...
...lost. In time the currents of taste turned against El Greco. The Santo Domingo Adoration was allowed to become so begrimed under centuries of neglect that few art historians noted or reproduced it. Last year the church, hard up to finance repairs, sold it to Madrid's Prado for $55,000. It took the Prado's experts nine months to clean and restore it. Today, the Adoration hangs in a place of honor in one of the Prado's newly inaugurated salons, fresh with all the unearthly radiance and splendor that El Greco's brushes originally...