Word: spain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...over Spain, the word was sí. FRANCO SÍ proclaimed a sign that covered four stories of a skyscraper in downtown Madrid. VOTE SÍ FOR LA PAZ echoed posters on the walls and lampposts of every Spanish town. Spanish movie stars filmed television spots to prove that they wanted to sí as well as be seen, and flamenco dancers hammered out special sí seguidillas with their heels. To be sure that no one missed the message, billboards from Cádiz to Catalonia displayed a silky señorita in an overstuffed sweater, urging motorists...
...document that Spain approved represents no great leap toward Western-style democracy, but it is at least a step in the direction of political liberalization. It guarantees religious freedom to the tiny minority of Spaniards-30,000 Protestants and 6,000 Jews-who were not born into Catholic families. It confirms the law of last year that relaxed government controls over the labor movement, including the right to strike, and all but destroys the already hollow shell of the Falangist Party. It also creates direct elections for one-fifth of the members of Parliament; the other four-fifths will continue...
HELEN BOYD CHRISTAL Palma, Mallorca, Spain...
Arctic Spillover. Whenever a trough hovered over the eastern Mediterranean in the vicinity of Cyprus during most of October, while another hung over the Atlantic off the coast of Spain (the position of the troughs this year), Israel's rainfall was from 20% to 55% below normal for the next three months. When the Mediterranean trough showed up near Italy during October and the corresponding Atlantic trough was located off the U.S. coast, Israeli winter rainfall was from 20% to 60% above normal. Krown also determined that in each of the three years of normal rainfall during the November...
...building less new housing per capita than such countries as Austria, Greece, Czechoslovakia, Spain, Italy, Yugoslavia and even hard-pressed Britain; per-capita U.S. output is only about half that of Sweden, West Germany...