Word: spain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...KAMIHIRA-Durlacher, 538 Madison Ave. at 54th. Few artists use pure stagecraft more effectively or pack their interiors with such sultry silence as this Japanese-American figure painter. Twenty-one recent works include new excursions into landscape, inspirations of a trip through Spain. Through...
Lack of Parts. The deal came as no surprise to the U.S. Government. For months, Cuban trade officials have been shopping with France, West Germany, Spain and Japan for someone to restore the island's disintegrating transportation system. Havana bus parks are filled with rusting U.S. buses for which no parts are available. In 1962, Czechoslovakia sent several hundred Skoda buses, but they soon fell victim to Cuba's tropical weather, its potholed roads and hot-rodding drivers. Of some 1,600 buses operating in Havana in 1961, only about half are still in service, so few that...
...novel, a story of a love affair between a Harvardman and a 'Cliffie, takes place mostly in Cambridge and in Europe. Other outdoor shots for the film, Ritter said, will be made on location in Spain, and the indoor scenes will be shot in European studios...
...years, Don Juan de Borbon, Pretender to the Spanish throne, has been living in exile. Spain's Dictator Francisco Franco stonily forbade him to return to Madrid-until last week...
...game is jai alai, pronounced "hi lie" and meaning, roughly, "merry festival." It is a kind of jet-propelled handball that probably originated with the Aztecs, traveled to Spain with Cortes, and was reintroduced to the New World by the Basques, who claim it as their native sport. The object is simple enough: players wearing basketlike cestas heave a ball against a wall until someone misses. But ah, the details. The court is about 200 ft. long; the ball is so hard (rubber core wound with nylon string, covered with goatskin) and goes so fast (up to 175 m.p.h.) that...