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...terms of our individual nations and not of the common benefits," complained a Venezuelan official after the conference finally broke up. Chile's Foreign Minister Gabriel Valdés Subercaseaux decried the "exaggerated, abusive" use of the veto, and Ecuador's delegate to Asunción, Julio Prado Vallejo, said flatly that the conference demonstrated "the unacceptability of new compromises...
Died. Manuel Prado Ugarteche, 78, twice (1939-45, 1956-62) President of Peru, a courtly aristocrat and banker, who during both of his administrations gave early, unwavering support to the U.S., first against Hitler, later by breaking diplomatic relations with Cuba's Castro, as wartime leader took impressive strides toward industrialization, and did much to stem an inflationary tide during his second term; of a heart attack; in Paris...
This colorful calendar of events is an approach that Smith, 56, first attempted with a book on Japan. To get the best possible photographs for his present work,* he mounted flimsy scaffolds in Moorish mosques, prowled the chill cellars of El Escorial, and nestled in the niches of the Prado. One of the most fascinating chapters of the book depicts the 800-year-long confrontation of Moor and Christian (see color pages), a conflict that forged the Spanish spirit, united a nation and changed Spain's art forever...
Along with the bullfights and the Prado, Spain's fabled flamenco dancing is something every tourist wants to see. What U.S. visitors seldom realize is that the "authentic" dances staged in the vast majority of Spain's "singing cafés" or tablaos 'these days are more flimflam than flamenco. To meet the demand, moaned a flamenco impresario in Madrid last week, "anybody who can wiggle his feet or snap his fingers has set up a tablao-and is cleaning up. The result is the complete breakdown of authentic flamenco. They're all dancing...
...enterprising art dealer named Justin K. Thannhauser and an eager collector, Movie Actor Edward G. Robinson, left Paris together, along with their wives, for an art-seeing holiday in Switzerland. Their main goal was an exhibition on loan from the Prado. They saw the Spanish paintings, but the Thannhausers never returned to France. World War II began, and as German-born Jews, they took sanctuary in Switzerland until they could come to New York...