Word: spain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Quite a voyager, Paul joined the Norwegian Merchant Marine when he finished high school in New Jersey. During the war, he was in one of the last units of the US Cavalry and was shipped to India, China and Burma. After the war he studied painting in Spain under the GI Bill for a couple of years. He doesn't have time for much of his own work any more. "I get more of a kick showing off other people's work. And really, I don't care whether someone buys a painting or not, but I'd rather...
Still in striped pants and cutaway after attending ceremonies celebrating Honduras' 136-year-old independence from Spain, U.S. Ambassador Whiting Willauer, 50, was just sitting down to lunch at the. embassy one day last week when he was summoned to the telephone. It was the governor of the province. At a treacherous swimming hole in the muddy Rio Quaccerique, just ten miles from town, a young swimmer had dived, struck a rock and disappeared under the swift currents. Could the ambassador be of any assistance...
...time, in psychology, in power, in learning-the Roman authority survived as long as it did. Italy was not only the home of the papacy, it was the source and cradle of European civilization itself-sophisticated, modern, even decadent, when England and Germany were still medieval, while France and Spain were somewhere midway between the two stages. "Renounce your desire to see Rome, my friend; what you seek there is not to be found any longer," wrote the aristocratic German theologian Ulrich von Hutten: "You may live from plunder, commit murder and sacrilege . . . but if you do but bring money...
...through West's pages sticking the men about him on thorns; he is a complete sadist, whose quiet, corrosive words prick at Miss Lonelyhearts constantly. Pat O'Brien, tested veteran of countless barrel-bottom films, shouts. Playwright Howard Teichmann has promoted the novel's Shrike, with name changed to Spain, to rank with Miss Lonelyhearts himself, boring more holes in the plot's tight belt, as if to accommodate O'Brien's bulk...
...Spain, Valencia's City Councilman Vincente Giner Guillot had nursed a private ambition for more than 20 years: to be the one to discover the missing one of three El Grecos that, legend said, once belonged to Valencia's 350-year-old Real Colegio del Corpus Christi. Councilman Guillot's main problem was that he knew nothing about the missing El Greco, not even its subject. The clue he needed could not have been simpler. When the director of Madrid's Museum of Modern Art heard of his search, he remembered seeing, some 20 years...