Word: prado
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Economics. In 1934 he bought a dormant Lima newspaper, La Prensa, and despite lengthy absences to serve in government, managed to build it into his nation's most influential paper. A fiscal conservative who staunchly opposed Communism, he was named Finance Minister and Prime Minister by President Manuel Prado in 1959 and during the next two years managed to cut Peru's inflation rate from 11% to 3% and erase the government's budget deficit. Resigning in 1961 after a futile bid for the presidency, Beltran continued editing La Prensa until 1974, when the military government expropriated...
DIED. Algur Hurtle Meadows, 79, oil mogul who gave Southern Methodist University about $30 million in money and masterpieces to establish in Dallas a "prairie Prado"; following an automobile accident; in Dallas. In 40 years Meadows built up the small General American Oil Co. into a $100 million diversified empire. Some of his forays into art acquisition were less successful, as when he paid roughly $500,000 for 44 "bargain" canvases that turned out to be fakes...
There might have been a punch thrown in that Ali--uh you know, whatsisname fight last night. Somebody could have gotten hurt...I definitely want the movie rights to the Alfredo Evangelista story. It opens with this guy running up the front steps of the Prado while disco/flamenco music plays in the background...When a fight goes two rounds, there are three commercials; when a fight goes 15 rounds, there are 32. So what was Cosell complaining about?...Be sure to catch that new film biography of the Champ, which will be opening at your local theaters later this month...
...glory of New York is its museums. Highlights: the Metropolitan's special shows-Chinese landscape paintings, Goyas on loan from the Prado, the great Norbert Schimmel collection of ancient art. The Museum of Modern Art displays ideal taxis, the Whitney offers "200 Years of American Sculpture" and the Guggenheim Museum has its whole collection of early 20th century European paintings from 1880-1945 on view. And where else, in the same day, can one look at the only complete manuscript of a Mozart opera in this country (Der Schauspieldirektor, at the Pierpont Morgan Library), a brilliantly nostalgic collection...
...holding a party for the Fords at the Spanish embassy, Juan Carlos and his blonde Queen jetted to New York for the windup of their four-day visit. At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, they inaugurated a display of eight Goyas that were lent by Madrid's Prado, including both naked and clothed Majas. In Fort Greene Park, across the East River, Juan Carlos presented a bronze plaque at the monument to the Brooklyn Martyrs-the 12,000 men who died aboard British prison ships in nearby Wallabout Bay during the Revolutionary War. Most of the dead were Americans...