Word: spain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prediction: "There will be no more war." Briand clung tenaciously to the Foreign Ministry, explaining: "If I leave, the rightists will get a minister of their choice who will return to a policy of force. This will make the fortune of the German nationalists." At tending a bullfight in Spain, Briand reacted like a polished diplomat, observing, "Suppress the matador, the picadors and the toreadors and let me go into the arena with a little bundle of hay, and you will see that I'll make peace with the bull...
...Spain is one of the few places left in the world where celebrities can draw a breath in peace. But there is at least one newshawk among the chickens. Shadowing Holland's visiting Princess Irene, 24, a Madrid photographer followed her to a Roman Catholic church, where he watched her receiving Communion-and stumbled on the best-kept secret of the Dutch House of Orange. Sometime last year "after long and deep thinking," Irene, second in line to the throne, had converted to Catholicism. Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard, said a hastily prepared royal communique, "fully backed the freedom...
...retail sales. Long dominant in the Midwest, Sears has rebuilt some Eastern stores and opened many new ones, is erecting a mammoth distribution center in Secaucus, N.J., to service them. Meanwhile, capitalizing on its Latin American experience, Sears next year will open stores in Madrid and Barcelona, use Spain as a wedge into the Common Market, where U.S.-style mail-ordering is a postwar phenomenon. Such moves delight Chairman Cushman, whose pleasures seem to be simple. Says he: "I love to hear the sound of the cash register ringing." If projections hold true, Sears's registers will ring...
...then take them to a major corrida. "Whether your children are horrified or think it enormously exciting, I think, in light of its past history and present pageantry, a bullfight is a fine addition to a child's education, and I can't imagine going to Spain and not seeing...
When the mild dictator, Primo de Rivera, came to power in 1923, Unamuno attacked him mercilessly. Rivera finally packed Unamuno off to the Canary Islands, where he enjoyed a comfortable exile and turned out 103 sonnets. When Rivera was ousted in 1930, Unamuno returned to Spain. But he found the new republic no more to his taste. He welcomed Franco's rebellion, adding that civil war would be good for Spain. In 1936, just before his death, he turned against Franco...