Word: spain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Spain's General Francisco Franco allowed Argentina's General Juan Domingo Peron to settle in Madrid five years ago with only one condition: the ousted South American strongman was not to engage in politics. Peron plunged forthwith into a career of remote-control intrigue that reached a ludicrous anticlimax this month when a long-heralded attempt to return home ended in his being sent back to Spain from Rio. Last week Franco decreed that the Argentine would either have to sign a pledge within 30 days forswearing political activity or leave Spain...
...afternoon and evening. At 8 p.m. the exiled dictator went to dinner with Isabelita, his pretty young wife, a Spanish police officer assigned to guard him. and a few Peronista visitors from Argentina. Later, as always, Perón went upstairs to watch television, which invariably occupies him until Spain's only channel goes off the air at 12:30 a.m. Instead, with The Untouchables turned up full blast inside, Perón suddenly embarked on a hugger-mugger exploit of his own that was to make world headlines, involve half a dozen governments, and end in a greater...
...imported for the dance-minded. Elizabeth Oxenberg, 26, is a genuine-though deposed-Princess of Yugoslavia who eloped four years ago with Seventh Avenue Manufacturer Howard Oxenberg, still lends an air of royalty to the social circuit. But most titled ladies are simple American girls who married romantic foreigners. Spain's Countess Quintanilla, for instance, was plain Mary Aline Griffith, daughter of a Pearl River, N.Y., insurance salesman...
...analyzes, "why most girls become actresses. The thing that turns them into a star is the need to be loved and accepted. Approbation to me means more than anything." By the time she was 16, she was getting approbation all over the place, even on a trip to Spain, where a matador spotted her in the stands and gave her both ears of his most recently vanquished bull. Outside the plaza de toros, her mother threw the ears in the gutter...
Trade, as well as politics, makes strange bedfellows: Spain and Castro's Cuba, Britain and Red China, Israel and West Germany. One of the strangest tie-ups these days is between The Netherlands and its former colony, Indonesia, which severed diplomatic relations in 1960 and seemed headed for a full-scale war. The once bitter enemies have recently begun exchanging public compliments and friendly trade delegations, will even exchange ambassadors in January in a full resumption of diplomatic relations...