Word: spain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Texas. D. Spain...
...struggle that holds all Spain enthralled as it watches the two: haughty, handsome Luis Dominguin, 33, the sometime international playboy whose cool style can crackle with showmanship, and boyish Antonio Ordoñez, whose classic passes flare with the brilliance that fires aficionados into ecstasy. Each is a millionaire, but each cares more for his craft than cash. And each is fond of holding up a forefinger, smiling faintly and declaring: "Yo, el primero...
...John Mackay, ex-president of Princeton Theological Seminary: "Dr. Hromadka does his utmost to adjust himself as much as a Christian can to a political situation. Christians have had to do this ever since the Roman Empire. There is more religious freedom in Communist Czechoslovakia today than in Catholic Spain...
Averaging about the size of a card table, they were in high, far, pleasant places on the undersides of overhanging rocks. They resemble Stone Age art found in eastern Spain, the Tassili mountains of North Africa, in India and Indonesia. They depict tall, slender, square-shouldered people quite unlike the present-day aborigines. Sharply designed and hauntingly evocative, they suggest a lost civilization with its own unnamed gods and elaborate ritual. Some paintings show boomerangs, the aborigine's weapon, but boomerangs were used in several parts of the prehistoric world. Lommel has not the slightest notion what the pictures...
...will exceed $800 million (v. $229 million in 1952); close to $200 million will be in precision and heavy manufactured goods, directly competitive with products in which the U.S. specializes. Throughout the world, Japanese exports of heavy goods-turbines to Brazil, electric train cars to India, bulldozers to Spain-are targeted to rise this year some 40% to about $700 million...