Word: spain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pretext that production and efficiency must be improved, laid down new early hours for nearly every phase of Spanish life. Beginning June 1, shops must close at 7 p.m., groceries by 8. Theaters and cinemas will let out at 11:30 p.m.-just when most patrons in late-running Spain are puffing down the aisle to their seats. And, as if no indignity is too much for the burdened Spaniard to bear, the government has ordered restaurants and cafes to pull down their iron shutters at the afternoonish hour of midnight. Wondered an incredulous professor as he sipped...
...like many other of Franco Spain's unpopular laws-such as forcing traffic actually to stop at a red light-the new curfew seems doomed to be broken. Valentin, owner of one of Madrid's leading restaurants, will be one of the first to break it. "I'll pay all the fines I have to," he says, "but I won't close at midnight. I owe it to my public. If the fines are too big, I'll ask the United States for a foreign aid loan...
...contract was paved with silverware from Wimbledon and Forest Hills. No longer. Stripped of nearly all its top-rank players, amateur tennis is in the doldrums, and Pro Promoter Jack Kramer has been forced to develop his own stars. Best of Kramer's new proteges is Spain's Andres Gimeno, an agile 23-year-old who never won a major amateur tournament...
...party bigwig, although he rose to be appointed to the patsy post of campaign manager for Earl Browder in the 1936 presidential elections; it suited Voros, who at his intellectual best was very woolly on Marxist theory. This philosophical fuzziness saved him; he stubbornly remained human. Ordered to Spain in 1937, he was promoted to chief of the Anglo-American section of the historical section of the International Brigade. It seems to have been one of the party's mistakes. Voros did not have it in him to be an executioner. He was shocked at the spectacle...
...become the central redoubt of Protestant evangelism. On a mountain overlooking the Mediterranean, a Detroit-born Baptist minister and a staff of 17 are beaming a constant stream of religious broadcasts over five giant "curtain antennas" that reach across Asia to the Pacific. Broadcasts in the other direction-to Spain-carry on to Latin America. The Gospel message is carried in Russian, Spanish, Latvian, Hebrew, Arabic, Swedish, Portuguese, French, English, Italian and German. Within three months, Armenian, Georgian and Uzbek will be added; within a year, Chinese and Hindustani. And the Soviets have never tried...