Word: spain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...official Government standards, a single city dweller is poor if he earns less than $1,540 a year-a level that exceeds West Germany's average per capita income of $1,358, and seems opulent beside Spain's $342. To determine the precise borders of poverty, the U.S. reckons that a man could have three adequate meals a day for 700 if he bought nothing but Government surplus foods. The minimum also includes a sparse allowance for rent, clothing and other necessities; in the case of a single farmer, who can obtain cheap food, the minimum...
...fine swing. His tee shots, though not long, are straight. As far as three-putting, this happens to almost all Europeans who play the Sotogrande course for the first time because the fast bent-grass greens that Trent Jones built are new and unknown in Spain. I can vouch for the accuracy of these statements because it was I who played with General Franco that...
...Linea, Spain...
...last week, Jackie, who is increasingly emerging from her mood of widowhood, set out for what she hoped would be a carefree Spanish holiday.* But like all dreams of castles in Spain, reality turned out to be something else again. Not that the Duke and Duchess of Alba were ungracious; if anything, they seemed a bit awed. With sweeping Spanish hospitality, they installed her in their Palacio de las Dueñas in the bed room once used by France's Empress Eugénie, great-grandaunt of the present duchess...
Upon a White Horse. Having weathered the initial storm, Jackie decided to stick it out, and her vacation began to pick up. In Seville's magnificent bullring, Spain's three leading toreros, El Cordobes, Paco Camino and El Viti, all bypassed Princess Grace, offered their hats and first bulls to Jackie in homage. In response, she hastily dispatched a U.S. embassy aide to nearby Moron Airbase for three Kennedy half-dollars, which she slipped inside the hats before returning them. Though she turned away when the picadors lanced the bulls, she watched each pass of the bulls with...