Word: spain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Within hours of the end of Spain's Civil War in 1939, Francisco Franco ordered the construction of a monument to the Nationalists who died fighting for him. With labor recruited from political prisoners anxious to reduce their sentences, work began in 1940 and continued for the next 18 years...
...Spain's fratricide was too bloody and too recent. Loyalists refused to have their dead entombed with their enemies; Franco's own Nationalists objected to burial beside Loyalists. "Absolutely not," snapped Pilar Primo de Rivera, sister of Falangist Founder Jose Antonio, when she heard that Franco planned to move her brother's body from El Escorial (where Spain's kings are entombed...
...British tourist from flopping hat brim to suede shoes, Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd-hung with beach robe, towel, goggles, slippers and a florid sports shirt-headed for the beach on Spain's Costa Brava...
...Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velàsquez, court painter to Spain's proud Philip IV, was finishing a portrait of the King's daughter, the blonde, five-year-old Infanta Margarita. Around the demure princess bustled two noble maids of honor and two attendant dwarfs (one got, as a special favor, a pound of snow for each summer-day's work). A mastiff dozed on the floor, and in a mirror, Velàsquez occasionally caught sight of the King and Queen stopping to see how the sittings were progressing. Seized by new inspiration...
...best of the new magicians of concrete is Mexico's Felix Candela, 48, whose soaring shell structures are the pride of Mexico City, useful for everything from churches to bandstands. A Spanish-born architect who was once Spain's ski champion, Candela fought with the Loyalists (his brother, now his business partner, served with Franco), migrated via a concentration camp to Mexico in 1939. Fascinated as a boy with the way Spanish masons formed domes of hollow bricks, Candela went on to study the reinforced-concrete forms developed by Spain's Eduardo Torroja and Switzerland...