Word: spain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tshombe went to Europe for medical care in February and March, returned to the Congo, and then went into exile in Spain. By July he was writing letters from Barcelona to Congolese politicians: he developed ties with the three most powerful men behind the Adoula government: General Mobutu, Minister of Justice Bomboko and chief of the national security police, Nendaka. In February, 1964, a Tshombe propoganda newsletter began appearing in Leopoldville...
Roland Penrose, gave $2,000 apiece to six unadventurous choices. France's abstractionist Pierre Soulages, 45, won with an unevocative work titled 24 November '63. Spain's slashing Antonio Saura, 34, scored with an Imaginary Portrait of Goya. Hard edge got the nod as the jury's candidate for successor to abstract expressionism. The U.S.'s Ellsworth Kelly, 41, and Britain's Victor Pasmore, 56, won prizes with undistinguished glops of color. Sculpture prizes went to Jean Arp, 77, and Eduardo Chillida...
...spending has dropped 20% along the Riviera. To save on hotel and restaurant bills many visitors took the do-it-yourself approach to tourism, camping out in their own gear. At the same time, "Le Boom" enabled 10 million Frenchmen to travel abroad, almost half of them to Spain. Result: France's foreign-exchange surplus from tourism dropped from $200 million in 1962 to about $80 million this year...
...Gainers. West Germany, which has more sparkling cities than any other European nation, has registered a 5% rise in visitors and a 15% increase in tourist spending so far this year, expects 10 million tourists by year's end. A far greater gain is in Spain, where tourism advanced by 35% and will bring in $900 million this year-enough to wipe out two-thirds of the country's overall trading deficit. The increase has been spectacular: from 3.5 million tourists in 1958 to 13 million this year, the highest in Europe. Neighboring Portugal, the newest "in" place...
...Both Spain and Portugal succeed mostly because of their bargain prices; in Portugal a pleasant room with three meals costs $4 a day, and a superb dinner with wine in Lisbon's finest restaurants amounts to $5. Tourism, now the single biggest item in world trade, producing an annual volume of nearly $30 billion, is no longer a matter of class but of mass. Said the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development: "The price factor tends to be more and more decisive as tourism spreads to the lower income groups...