Word: spain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...staff studies on locating strategic and tactical air bases in the Middle East, had come away convinced that the Middle East was so vulnerable to Russia's near-at-hand Ilyushin light bombers and tactical missiles that the U.S.A.F.'s strategic bombers ought to stay back in Spain and Morocco. The Army had weighed several types of Middle East campaigning, had come away impressed by the fact that all of 500,000 French troops had not been able to subdue Algeria even while holding cities, harbors, airfields, rail centers. Even the Navy, as it cruised the Mediterranean...
...roaring, madcap world of Grand Prix auto racing, the power axis is shifting. For years, daring, lead-footed Italians bestrode the field until fiery death picked them off one by one, from Ascari to Musso. Spain's dashing Alfonso de Portago was killed in 1957, and Argentina's five-time world champion, aging (47) Juan Manuel Fangio, announced this summer that he is retiring. Today, dominance in racing belongs to the British, especially to flaxen-haired, temperamental Mike Hawthorn, 29, and balding, easygoing Stirling Moss, 28. The two are battling head-to-head for the world driving championship...
...novel, A Capitol Offense (TIME, Aug. 6, 1956), a middle-aged Ambrose righted wrongs in Washington, D.C.; the present book, set in 1937, shows the philosopher as a younger man, paddling after evildoers in Oxford and London. Ambrose has just done a job of espionage in civil-war-torn Spain to accommodate a friend in the Foreign Office, and he wants a few weeks of peace before the fall term starts at Oxford. But he needs money (he has worked out a scheme to pauperize the Grimaldis' gambling hell at Monte Carlo), and a millionaire industrialist offers...
...afternoon." Recovered from a heart attack in Puerto Rico (TIME, April 29, 1957), Cellist Casals was back in the town of Prades (pop. 5,000) on the edge of the French Pyrenees, where he resumed his concert career eight years ago as an exile from Franco's Spain. From all over Western Europe musicians and disciples poured into town to play for and honor the rotund little man with the shiny bald head who is the hero of music's most lovingly cultivated modern legend...
...post-Nixon" Latin American emphasis and your excellent Muñoz Marin cover story [June 23]: many Americans, enchanted by the cultures of Spain or France, ignore or even deride an almost identical culture to their south. To a large segment of Americans, Mexico and the remainder of Latin America is represented by dives or semiliterate braceros. This is like judging the U.S. by Coney Island or Arkansas hillbillies. Unless we make an effort to understand and appreciate the rich, proud and nonmaterialistic culture of our southern neighbors we shall have lost a major battle of the cold...