Word: spain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Spain's Francisco Franco is the only other dictator with legal life tenure as chief of state. Ghana's strongman President, Kwame Nkrumah, was voted permanently into office in September, but His High Dedication modestly vetoed the gesture, preferring to rely on elections-a safe enough gesture since the country is officially a one-party state...
Gerald Brenan, a 69-year-old Englishman who has lived for most of the past 44 years in Spain, has none of the usual credentials of the autobiographer. He has not pushed a pirogue to the headwaters of the Orinoco or crossed Kurdistan on yakback; he is not a weight lifter, a defector from or to Communism; he never became the white god of some overcredulous tribe of aborigines; he does not have the lives of 10,000 better men lost in battle to explain away; he is not a busybody determined to pad the record of a long life...
...Gasman Goeth. Brenan lives in Spain-not because it is romantic but "because it is cheap"-surrounded by a 2,000-book library, writing distinguished books about Spain (South from Granada, The Spanish Labyrinth], and glumly accepting visits from old Bloomsbury friends like Lytton Strachey. What makes Brenan's story unique and the telling of it a rare pleasure is the one quality that distinguishes him from the ordinary run of men-his indifference to the opinions of others. In the cozy modern commonwealth of man, he never learned to snuggle up to his fellows. He had a hermit...
...extras will come to about $40,000 this year. He can have more, any time he wants it. Last year Milan's Internazionale offered him a $60,000 bonus to sign a contract, and another Italian team. Juventus. was willing to go as high as $300,000. Spain's Real Madrid told Pelé to set his own price. Pelé turned them all down...
...born accident-prone and money-prone." A friend thus describes Eduardo Barreiros Rodriguez, 43, the chainsmoking Spanish industrialist who, in partnership with Gulf Oil, is busy building a network of 500 auto service stations across Spain. As a struggling mechanic in the provinces, Barreiros lost four fingers in mishaps. But in 15 years, he parlayed his family auto repair shop into a $670 million industrial empire (diesel engines, machinery, electrical equipment) that ranks among Spain's six largest private enterprises. Barreiros has just signed a contract to produce diesel engines, trucks and tractors in Colombia. He still lives...