Word: spain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the Conquistadors came in 1519, they hoped to found not just a colony but a New Spain. Instead, the Mexicans absorbed the Spaniards. The viceroy took the place of Montezuma; Christ became the altar ego of the god Quetzalcoatl, the plumed serpent and savior who can both soar like a bird and slither like a snake. In 17th century crucifixes by Indian artisans, Christ's body does not hang upon the Cross, but becomes part of it, styled after pre-Columbian pieces in which animals and human figures became part of the pottery. In one oil, a viceroy...
...barges; today, Cargill's 110 outposts are placed at almost every strategic transportation point in the midcontinent. The family business has been passed down through Cargill's descendants, who built huge grain elevators and expanded into everything from fish-meal processing in Peru to soybean processing in Spain...
...also to match their overseas holdings. Chrysler has 16 plants overseas, and earlier this year acquired control of Simca, France's fourth largest automaker. Last week Townsend outmaneuvered both Ford and General Motors to become the first U.S. automaker to win a foothold in Spain...
Both G.M. and Ford have been negotiating with the Spanish government, but failed to reach an agreement because of a new government regulation requiring unrealistically high auto output. Taking another tack, Townsend paid $17 million for a 35% interest in Madrid's thriving Barreiros Diesel S.A., Spain's biggest privately owned truck and enginemaker, which is not bound by the new decree. Aided by Chrysler know-how and money, President Eduardo Barreiros, 43 (TIME, April 12), will build a new plant, intends to produce 15,000 Dodge Darts the first year. Another attractive angle for Chrysler: autos made...
...laughing because her husband (Laurence Harvey) is not dead. He pops in the front door, hangs a big fat buss on her happy face, tells her to come collect him as soon as she collects the insurance money, pops out the front door, hops a plane to Spain. Three months later, she hops one too. They meet in Malaga, two gay young things who propose to live happily ever after on their ill-got gains. After all, he reassures her, they haven't really committed a crime; they have simply enforced their rightful claim upon an insurance company that...