Word: solana
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...REVEREND ARCADIO LARRAONA, 72, born in Oteiza de la Solana, Spain, and a member of the Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.* Father Larraona has been teaching, writing and lecturing in Rome for 40 years, where he has held a number of posts in the Curia. As the first Claretian cardinal in history, he will be permitted by his order to change his brown robes for scarlet, provided that they are of wool...
Dana Bate is excellent as Marco, the older cousin, making the most of what could be a very colorless part. Francesca Solana has her moments as the niece, but she is frequently shrill and overly intense. She is at her best in her quieter moments. Margery Ziskind is unconvincing as the wife, Frank Langella also has his moments, but generally his characterizations is overdrawn...
Dark clouds hung low on the rugged Cantabrian mountain peaks, and storm warnings were posted all along the Spanish coast. Out in the Atlantic, aboard his 32-foot trawler Flower of Spring, Fisherman Candido Solana Hoz listened to the radio while he scanned the seas with practiced eye. Of all the captains sailing out of the little Basque village of Santona, Candido was the ablest. For 50 years he had followed the sea, and with his three husky sons Ricardo, Constantino and Manuel for a crew, he seldom failed to bring the Flower back with a fine catch...
...colleague Ralph Heintz: "It is time we faced facts. The free benefits we formerly received were paid for by Uncle Sam." Bill Jack sold out for $8,000,000 and went out to Rancho Santa Fe, Calif, to take it easy. By 1949, idleness chafed him. In Solana Beach, Calif., he organized the Bill Jack Scientific Instrument Co. to make a new kind of aerial reconnaissance camera, rounded up some new "associates" and began dreaming big dreams. Last week it looked as if Bill Jack was ready to hop into the public eye-and public pocket-once more. He announced...