Word: spain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bright blue skis and a parakeet in a cage, Princess Irene of The Netherlands tripped gaily aboard a chartered KLM airliner last month, unnoticed by the press. Prettiest of four royal sisters and second in line of succession (after Princess Beatrix, 27), blonde, buxom Irene, 24, took off for Spain, whose culture and language she studied at the University of Utrecht. By last week, when she finally returned home, Irene had stirred bitter animosities among her people, delighted many others, flouted her family's sternest tradition, and rocked the House of Orange to its foundations. She also got engaged...
First Hint. The engagement, to one of Spain's grandest grandees, might logically have mollified a mother with four unmarried daughters. Not Irene's mother. Queen Juliana is the eight-time great-granddaughter of William the Silent, a Calvinist princeling who led Protestant Holland in its bitter war of independence against Catholic Spain, until his death at the hand of a Spanish assassin in 1584. William is revered by the Dutch as the Father of the Fatherland, and his House of Orange has occupied the throne continuously since The Netherlands became a monarchy 150 years ago. To Dutch...
Spanish is the exception: due to Spain's historic and literary importance rather than Latin America's present significance, the language is well-taught here. But history, political institutions, and sociology have been shamefully ignored. When Latin American problems are touched upon, it is usually in courses studying cross-cultural health problems or flora and fauna. One anthropology course, five economics courses, and two history courses designed for undergraduates tangentially discuss Latin America. Very few of these are substantially relevant to the undergraduate who would like to make the study of Latin America his central theme...
...jury that then picked the winners included Painter Hans Hofmann, Arnold Rüdlinger, director of the Kunsthalle in Basel, and Werner Haftmann, German art historian. The jury also gave prizes of $2,500 each to Wifredo Lam, a Cuban who works in Italy; Robert Motherwell of the U.S.; Spain's Antoni Tapies and Victor de Vasarely, a Hungarian who lives in France...
...past five years), a balance-of-payments deficit and the franc's declining buying power. Their troubles really stem from an overdose of success. To meet increased demand abroad for Swiss goods, Switzerland in the early 1950s began importing increasing numbers of workers, chiefly from Austria, Italy and Spain; foreigners now comprise one-third of the country's 2,000,000 work force. These workers have helped to raise Switzerland's gross national product by an impressive 9% for the past two years, but the wages that they send home are a principal cause of Switzerland...