Word: spain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MOMENT OF TRUTH. Big money, beautiful women and sudden death await an ignorant peasant (played by Spain's Matador Miguel Mateo) in an angry, bloody drama about the bullring...
...Thief! Clown! Animal!" screamed the crowds in Lima's Plaza de Acho, and then, worst of all: "Dancer!" Fumed Bullfight Critic Leonidas Rivera: "There he stood, the most famous matador in Spain, where he just set a record of 111 fights in a single season: a rattled young man trying to get it over with in as short a time and with as little risk to himself as possible. He did not improve things when he kicked the bull in the snout, and he looked simply grotesque when he charged his second bull with head lowered and butted...
This week Mayor Alfonso Cervantes, whose name is a reminder that the site of St. Louis once was ruled by Spain, plans to sign an agreement in Madrid for the purchase of the Spanish Pavilion from the New York World's Fair. For $3,300,000 in private funds, St. Louis would acquire the fair's most highly praised structure, with its three restaurants, 748-seat theater, and an art gallery. And given St. Louisans' thrust to make their city great, bonanzas are not likely to stop there...
Communist Customers. To win contracts, companies and governments are making some imaginative deals. France is negotiating to sell a $118 million reactor to Spain, has offered to pay a quarter of the cost of it, and in return will get a quarter of the power that it produces. Westinghouse invaded heavily protected French territory, got the job of building the reactor for a Franco-Belgian plant in the Ardennes by promising to subcontract much of the work to local firms. In order to profit from the German market, Westinghouse has also licensed Siemens to use its reactor patents...
...Europe's state-owned power monopolies are expected to place most of their future orders with local suppliers. U.S. equipment companies believe that their most promising markets are in countries that want nuclear power but have not yet begun large-scale production of reactors themselves, notably Italy, Spain, Switzerland and Japan. Beyond that is a vast future market in the developing countries. Eagerly eying South America and Africa, the Western suppliers figure that eventually there should be enough business for just about everyone...