Word: spain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cover story on Franco Spain certainly points out another danger area to the U.S. Franco's impending demise gives rise to the notion of a creation of another Fidel Castro...
Cocky Gambits. Continuing his nationalist spree, before leaving on a trip to Spain and Pakistan, Macapagal last week took on still another Western power by claiming Philippine sovereignty over the 29,387 square miles of British North Borneo.* More significant than these cocky gambits is the fact that Macapagal seems determined to base them on democracy and free enterprise at home. He understands the challenge, for the tao, with whom Macapagal identifies, are desperately poor, unlike the top 10% of the Filipinos who receive nearly half the nation's personal income. An estimated 5,000,000 peasants have...
...successful were these and other projects that this week, after giving Athens $14 million under the Point Four plan, the U.S. ended its technical assistance program. At the same time, Point Four aid to Spain, Yugoslavia, Lebanon and Israel also wound up. These countries will still be eligible for financial support, but Washington believes that yesterday's underdeveloped nations have learned the skills they need while the new nations of Africa and Asia now require Point Four help far more urgently...
...life, Spanish Composer Manuel de Falla (1876-1946) seemed to have deserted music. In Granada, and later in Argentina, he passed his time in apparently unproductive solitude. But Falla never stopped working, and the years of silence were filled with a dream-"to glorify the immortality of Spain through music." Last week, at Milan's La Scala, the grand dream came to life at the premiere of Falla's four-hour-long scenic cantata La Atlantida...
...conceived of La Atlantida as his life's masterwork. a Spanish Parsifal, throbbing with epic Wagnerian themes and massive Wagnerian thunder. He took his title and story from the Catalonian epic by Jacinto Verdaguer-a tale of the lost continent of Atlantis, destroyed for its sins, and of Spain preserved to export Christianity to the New World...