Word: spain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When Spain's Francisco Franco set out for hot, dry Ciudad Rodrigo last week to meet with Portuguese Dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, a rustle of speculation swept through Madrid. What, asked the wags, could bring the dictators out of their palaces in weather like this...
...Laver of Australia won the $25,000 U.S. Professional Tennis Championship by beating Spain's Andre Gimeno at the Longwood Cricket Club yesterday...
...find only President Alfredo Stroessner of tiny, backward Paraguay. Flags of the two countries flew side by side all over Caracas last week as General Stroessner and a party of 30 top henchmen played guests of honor for the 146th anniversary of Venezuela's declaration of independence from Spain...
...most dazzling displays of royal panoply since World War II, thousands of monarchists shouted "Vive le Roi!" Among those present: King Paul and Queen Frederika of Greece, Prince Jean of Luxembourg, Princess Beatrix of The Netherlands, ex-King Umberto of Italy and Europe's two other leading pretenders, Spain's Don Juan and Portugal's Dom Duarte Nuño. Notably missing: the Windsors of Great Britain...
Napoleon's occupation forces. The cannon, a beautiful three-ton jewel of muzzle-loading artillery, falls into the hands of an illiterate guerrilla chieftain (Frank Sinatra) after being abandoned by Spain's routed army regulars. Sharing his ordeal of moving the gun overland, through French-commanded passes and along sen-tried back roads, is a weird ally, a spick-and-span British navy gunnery expert (Gary Grant), who, believing that war is a gentleman's affair, is appalled by the barbaric tactics of Sinatra's uncouth band. Italy's Sophia Loren, as a busty errand...