Word: spain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SPAIN. The pavilion is the most beautiful at the fair, suggests the courtyards of Castile and the filigreed palaces of Andalusia. To it, Spain brought the best she has: priceless paintings by Goya, El Greco, Zurburán and Velásquez, three prize Picassos, as well as folk dancers who perform in the gardens, bullfight movies and three fine restaurants...
TEATRO ESPANOL in Spain's pavilion has sparkling performances by Rosa Durán and the Zambra flamenco dancers, and Virtuosos Antonio Gades, Manuela Vargas, and Nana Lorca. It is the best entertainment at the fair, and only...
...three-quarters of the population of Milan fled the city. Rome, Florence, Naples and Genoa were dead, and Capri, Elba, Rimini and Viareggio as jammed as Coney Island on the 4th of July. Thousands of vacationers had to stand twelve hours in railroad coaches to reach the sea. In Spain, the government had moved from Madrid to San Sebastian, and was nearly trampled under the influx of French tourists, who this year will number...
...coup in 1953, soon became the model of the ruthless Latin American strongman-ruling by decree, censoring all newspapers, quashing political opposition. He lavished millions on the army, acquired at least nine ranches and generally proved so corrupt that a military-civilian coup sent him packing into exile in Spain in 1957. A year later when Rojas returned the government stripped him of his decorations and pensions, and barred him from voting or seeking office. Otherwise he was left alone, and that was a mistake...
...owners to rushing the completion of a sister ship, the Nili, scheduled to be named this month. When the tourist traffic to Israel slows down in the fall, Bilu is scheduled to begin plying between Miami and Nassau, while Nili starts running between Southampton in England and Algeciras in Spain, with a stop at Le Havre...