Word: spain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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COLLECTED SHORT STORIES, by Robert Graves. These skillful tales show again, if further proof is needed, that Robert Graves can write anything well. Most of the stories are set in Spain and feature lively eccentrics whose escapades make astonishing reading...
...battle flags up steep paths toward a plateau on the mountaintop. There, at the heart of the old northern kingdom of Navarre, they gathered for their annual commemoration of two bloody 19th century civil wars in which their ancestors fought to put a Carlist king on the throne of Spain...
...Prince Hugo Carlos de Borbon y Parma, and fortunately, the Dutch royal family was spared the spectacle outside Rome's Santa Maria Maggiore that looked more like a political rally than wedding festivities. The crowd rang with Carlist-battle cries of "Vivan los reyes!", and students from Spain's Loyola College, in the heart of Carlist country, serenaded the pair with guitars, tambourines and castanets. Irene's father-inlaw, Prince Xavier de Borbon y Parma, as gaunt and straight-backed as an El Greco grandee, arranged a brief interview with Pope Paul VI, who gave the newlyweds...
Midst laurels stood: Producer David Merriclc, whose Luther and Hello, Dolly! won both Drama Critics Circle awards as best play and best musical; Socialite Mrs. Winston ("Ceezee") Guest, 44, made a Dame of the Order of Isabel La Catolica, one of Spain's highest honors, in recognition of her charity work for that country; Bandleader Lawrence Welle, 61, created a Knight Commander of St. Gregory the Great by Pope Paul VI for his "wholesome family entertainment...
...jumped from $24,640 an acre in 1951 to $173,040 an acre. It now takes $185 per square foot to get front age on Munich's Marienplatz, and hill top land outside Bonn that went for 10 per square foot five years ago now brings $4.65. On Spain's Costa del Sol, which has become almost honky-tonk as a result of a vast influx of tourists and land speculators, even rural land now sells for as much as $60,000 an acre-a price that the same lot in Florida's Coral Gables could...