Word: spain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Democrat in Missouri's traditionally Republican Second District. It might be an uphill fight, but he knows a few things about Missouri politics, having twice helped run successful campaigns for his father, Senator Stuart Symington. Symington's replacement at State will be U.S. Ambassador to Spain Angier Biddle Duke, who held the protocol post for four years before going to Madrid...
Though he is not quite in the class of that other royal karate expert, Greece's black-belted King Constantine, Spain's Prince Juan Carlos de Borbón y Borbón is good enough to have earned a brown belt, first class, and proud enough of it to invite Madrid photographers to take a look. The occasion was Juan Carlos' 30th birthday, and he celebrated by cleaving a board with the edge of his hand. There was something else to celebrate too. The Prince is now, as far as age is concerned, eligible to become...
Most of the excitement in this year's Davis Cup challenge round came after the last match had been played. Led by John Newcombe, 23, the world's top-ranked amateur tennis player, Australia overpowered Spain to win the cup for the 15th time in the past 18 years. Immediately afterward, though, Newcombe and Teammates Tony Roche, 22, and Roy Emerson, 31, announced that they are turning pro-leaving the Aussies without a single player of world rank to defend the cup next year...
...Amour used mostly flashbacks, La Guerre Est Finie's inserts are mostly flash-forwards: fears and premonitions of Diego, the middle-aged Spanish revolutionary, played so magnificently by Yves Montand. In sight and Sound, Tom Milne describes Diego as caught between two worlds "in more ways than one: between Spain and France, between youth and age, between the old Spain of the International Brigade and the new one of tourist paradises, between his settled love for Marianna and his yearning for the uncomplicated youth of Nadine." Given this dilemma, Resnais and screen-writer Jorge Semprun probe the nature of commitment...
...knows precisely how many Cubans have left their country, but the figure is somewhere between 400,000 and 500,000. Most of them have gone to Venezuela, Argentina, and Spain, and of course, the United States, which has accepted some 300,000 since 1959. And more keep coming. The Cuban government admits that 200,000 of its 7 million citizens still residing there have applied to leave. The U.S. State Department says a million, though the latter figure is preposterously high...