Word: spain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Navy Skyhawk darted above the calm waters off Spain's Mazagón beach, its lights flashing in the early dawn. On that cue, 84 U.S. Navy ships, ten U.S. merchant ships and 14 small Spanish vessels began churning about in the largest military landing operation since World War II. This was Steel Pike I-the Navy's attempt to prove that old-fashioned assault by sea still holds some advantages over the modern trend toward movement...
Perhaps more significantly, this 1964 Spanish Armada, operating in the same area from which Columbus sailed on his discovery voyage in 1492, demonstrated anew the extent of U.S. military cooperation with Spain. The U.S. has also completed a deal to deliver non-nuclear Hawk antiaircraft missiles and some 1,400-m.p.h. F-104 jet fighters to Franco. All of this is at the displeasure of NATO allies of the U.S., who do not want Franco's Spain in NATO, and who last week canceled their plans to send observers to Steel Pike...
...Changeling by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley. The Lincoln Center Repertory Theater is working its way from mediocrity to absurdity. This season's starter is an Elizabethan plotboiler full of sex, gore and lunacy. As Beatrice, a noblewoman of Spain, Barbara Loden is not on speaking terms with her lines, and the rest of the cast is unspeakable, except for Barry Primus, who plays Beatrice's low-born hatchetman and seducer. The message of the evening seems to be that a girl may love the man she loathes. It does not hold for a playgoer...
Killed by the Nonexistent. There is an inflexible rule that in a novel about Spain the death of any male character over the age of five must be made to parallel the ritual of the bullfight, and a reader assumes that Celestino's four pains are merely Montherlant's notion of a heart attack. Not so. The police come, flip poor Celestino over, and discover "four thin clean holes which might have been made by a knife or sword." Has Celestino been murdered in some highly symbolic fashion? Apparently not; nor is there any hint that the supernatural...
Actually, Author Tracy concludes, the tourist should not worry too much about understanding Spain. Spaniards ask very little of him: "Foreigners in Spain should humbly recognize that their principal charm is their money, and their only virtue a readiness to part with...