Word: spain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Dr. Juan Negrin, 64, round-faced socialist and University of Madrid physiologist, who became Loyalist Spain's last premier (May, 1937) ten months after the Spanish Civil War broke out, for two years led the crumbling republic's fight against Franco's Axis-backed forces; of a heart attack; in Paris. Left-winger Negrin got aid from Russia, later was charged by onetime Defense Minister Indalecio Prieto with having smuggled $566 million in Loyalist bullion to Russia while finance minister...
...hurt. French railroads are cutting back schedules, switching from diesels to steam engines. Gasoline deliveries are down 20%, and the booming French Riviera tourist resorts are crying disaster; within a few days of the first gasoline restrictions, hotel occupancy dropped as much as 75% below normal. In Denmark and Spain there is also the glum specter of rationing, with fuel supplies down as much as 25%; Sweden and Switzerland have already banned pleasure driving on weekends...
...long time ago. before people stopped noticing miracles and started saying that they do not happen, a newborn baby was left one summer's night at the gate of a little Franciscan cloister that sat on the top of a high hill in the land of Spain. "It's a baby!' gasped the friar who found the precious package. He conducted a discreet investigation: "It's a boy!" And he ran to show the others what a wonder had come into their quiet lives. Brother Thomas, the cook, a man as simple and round and solid...
...this tender story was revived by a Spanish author, José Maria Sanchez-Silva, in the form of a novel not yet published in the U.S. Now it has been converted by Ladislao Vajda, a Hungarian director working in Spain, into a film as simple and sincere as a child's tear. The actors, especially Marcelino (Pablito Calvo) and Brother Cookie (Juan Calvo), play with an easy matter-of-factness that makes the transition from natural to supernatural almost disappear. The hard Spanish land and the bare Spanish sky clamp the mystical theme between them, as in a vise...
...Spain and the Netherlands withdrew November 6, citing Russia's intervention in Hungary. They gave their Olympic Funds to Hungarian relief groups. Iraq and Lebanon withdrew shortly thereafter because of the Middle-East situation. Israel reduced the size of its already small team because the men were headed for a "shooting competition...