Word: sebasti
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Lino Zanussi, 48, pioneer producer of Italy's modern home appliances; of injuries suffered in a plane crash; near San Sebastián, Spain. A high school dropout who took over his father's small stove business in 1946, Zanussi began expanding into other consumer lines, perceived the tastes and sales rhythm of Italians keenly enough to anticipate the postwar surge. Today, everything from refrigerators to TV sets emerges from the family-owned Industrie A. Zanussi, with an annual sales total of more than $100 million...
...homeland of the Basques. Spain's Basque Separatists are once more up to their old habits of derring-do. In recent weeks they have also planted their outlawed flag on a mountaintop in upper Navarra, ingeniously substituted it for the Spanish flag at a civil ceremony in San Sebastián. Police throughout northern Spain, more over, are searching frantically for a hidden Basque radio transmitter that jams government newscasts and broadcasts Separatist propaganda in their stead...
...from being isolated, the Basque country has boomed into Spain's most dynamic industrial area and one of its most prosperous. San Sebastián (pop. 149,000) is the nation's summer capital and most fashionable resort, boasts the highest per capita spending rate in all of Spain. Bilbao (pop. 357,000) is a throbbing city of steel mills and shipyards, whose skies are darkened by factory smoke by day and glow with the fires of blast furnaces by night. It is also Spain's banking capital, the headquarters of two of Spain's five...
Paco himself sort of slipped into haute couture. As the son of Balenciaga's premiere (first seamstress) in San Sebastián, Spain, he grew up in the world of fashion. He set out to be an architect, studied at the Atelier Perret, then drifted into fashion design. "Fashion is the same process as architecture," he explains. "Both are concerned with very precise limits-in fashion, those of a woman's body." One reminder of his former studies is his white-pailletted hat, "directly inspired by Bucky Fuller's geodesic dome...
Castello Branco's cause fared less well in the state of Minas Gerais. There the government sought to have Sebastião Paes de Almeida, 53, a multimillionaire industrialist-turned-politician, thrown out of the gubernatorial race for "abuse of economic power"-his legendary largesse at election time has earned him the nickname "Tião," after a famed Brazilian train robber. The state electoral court refused to cancel Paes de Almeida's candidacy. "If that section of the law does not apply to him," grumbled one Castello Branco aide, "we might as well...