Word: spain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...told the Spanish people about the arrests last week; the news filtered through censorship from the anti-Franco underground. Among the group of at least 54 rounded up since mid-November were university professors and lawyers, students and skilled workers. Most were in their 305. Some came from Spain's top families. The common "crime": all were socialists opposed to Francisco Franco's dictatorship...
...first, Conquistador Hernán Cortés, landed near Veracruz A.D. 1519 with horses and 600 men, defeated the Aztecs under Montezuma because the Indians believed the Spaniards to be brothers of a neglected god. Spain ruled for nearly 300 years before Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, a parish priest in the village of Dolores, led forth a ragged army of Indians under the banner of Mexico's own Virgin of Guadalupe, sparked an uprising that ended Spanish rule...
...served his country well during World War II. As an actor, he had been better than many of Hollywood's handsome heroes. As a private citizen, he had certainly been no worse. But in paying its last respects to a man it genuinely liked-he had died in Spain on the set of his latest movie, Solomon and Sheba-Hollywood somehow had to turn the occasion into a supercolossal production. It brought to grisly life the mordant funeral fantasies of Evelyn Waugh or Nathanael West...
...Spain, meanwhile, on the set of Solomon and Sheba, Tyrone Power's funeral marked a beginning, not an end, to trouble. Now that United Artists had decided not to cash in on a $2,500,000 insurance policy and pull out of the picture, problems piled up. Should they use a double to finish the scenes Ty had left undone? At least 50 applicants asked for the job. Even the final decision to hire Brynner and start again from scratch was plagued with difficulties. Stockier than Ty and almost 3 in. shorter, Yul would need all his costumes made...
...battle scenes already filmed on Saragossa's Los Monegros plains would have to be done over somewhere else. (Saragossa has already turned too cold.) Scouting parties spread out to the Canary Islands, and Málaga and Almeria on Spain's south coast. But it is not easy to find a sunny desert replete with enough Spanish soldiers (about 2,000) and enough horses (about 200). For a while, Ty's business partner, Ted Richmond, even considered Israel, finally gave up the idea because of a shortage of Israeli troops and possible international complications. ("What would Nasser...