Word: spain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rounding up a collection of classic Spanish painting has never been an easy task-outside Spain. In Europe, Spanish work was almost unknown until after Napoleon's looting and the later purchases of Louis Philippe gave France and Austria a chance to assemble collections. Madrid's Prado gallery, of course, still has the most. In the U.S., where collectors equipped with bulging pocketbooks and ranging tastes assiduously bought up Spanish masterpieces in recent generations, there are a number of good private and public collections to draw from. It is from these that the show "El Greco to Goya...
...Trinidad's Angostura Bitters, brewed originally at the Orinoco River town of Angostura (now Ciudad Bolivar) by an ex-Prussian army surgeon named J.G.B. Siegert, and now shipped around the world from Port of Spain in millions of bottles containing a sauce whose secret, boasts the company, is "as hard to fathom as Mona Lisa's smile...
...Cola values its secret formula (along with trademarks) at $43 million, and many other companies feel that the worth of their secret is greater than the net value of their companies. Sales of such products are sizable, while near-miss competitors fail. At the Angostura office in Port of Spain, the Siegert family has an elaborate display making that point. It shows more than 100 brands of bitters that over the years tried to match the real Angostura in taste and bottle, and in each case failed and faded away...
...PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Feb. 17--The hijacked Venezuelan freighter under chase by U.S. and Venezuelan warships stopped tonight near an island off the Brazilian coast...
...only contrast to all the villainy is an ethereal. Christlike character who is of course unjustly martyred. Even in Franco's Spain, there must be something between saints and sinners, someone who is just the least bit human...