Word: spain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rest of the sugar, Castro will need to use about 1,500,000 tons (at 3¼? per lb.) to pay for buses from Britain, locomotives from France, ships from Spain. Domestic consumption will take 400,000 tons. That leaves 800,000 tons that he can sell on the world market. The trouble there is that so many people are producing so much sugar that the price has tumbled from 12? a lb. to 2? a lb. in 19 months. Altogether, in sales and barter with the free world, Castro can raise only about $145 million this year-hardly...
Emily, the pet five-foot python that Geraldine Chaplin, 20, used to carry around Europe in a sack, evidently taught her something. On location in Spain, where she is playing the role of Tonia, the demure, bourgeois wife of Dr. Zhivago, the great Charlie's daughter suddenly assumed a herpetic pose. But as Geraldine said once, "For a young dancer like myself, what a treat it is to watch a snake move. Their suppleness and their elegance are incomparable...
Along with the bullfights and the Prado, Spain's fabled flamenco dancing is something every tourist wants to see. What U.S. visitors seldom realize is that the "authentic" dances staged in the vast majority of Spain's "singing cafés" or tablaos 'these days are more flimflam than flamenco. To meet the demand, moaned a flamenco impresario in Madrid last week, "anybody who can wiggle his feet or snap his fingers has set up a tablao-and is cleaning up. The result is the complete breakdown of authentic flamenco. They're all dancing...
...when she won the prestigious Theater of Nations Festival Dance Award in Paris in 1963. Daughter of a cattle salesman, she is an amateur bullfighter and a "purebred" Andalusian gitana (gypsy), whose ancestors have made flamenco a way of life for more than three centuries. In today's Spain, many flamenco performers are not even gypsies-or dancers either...
...carefree a mood as the times --the fall of 1936--permitted. True, there were problems in the big world outside: in the United States, depression and social unrest lingered, while in Europe, fascists had taken power in Germany and Italy and had launched a bloody war in Spain. But on the other hand, the freshmen were young, the prestige of their College had never been higher, and promised the Literary Digest, Alfred M. Landon was on his way to the White House. Things could have been worse...