Word: spain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Spain used to be an island in Europe, but today it has become an exciting, warm, modern country where one can appreciate an apparent human dignity innate in all Spaniards. I have directed one of my films in Spain, and not only was helped by a superior and enthusiastic technical knowledge, but also met with unlimited governmental understanding and cooperation. For these reasons, I appreciate even more your objective picture of the "new" Spain of today...
...American international businesses and banks are very much aware of Spain's recent progress and great potential. TIME renders a public service when it informs the American people of contemporary Spain, and enables them to modify impressions of the 1930s which have been outmoded by the exhilarating changes...
...winners, of course, were the Peronista parties, which got 23 seats, the governorship and 71% of the vote. It was the latest testimony to the lasting popularity of ex-Dictator Juan Domingo PerÓn, 70, who, from his exile in Spain, still commands the hearts, if not the heads, of some 3,000,000 Argentines. In Jujuy (pronounced who-hooey), Peron's descamisados (shirtless ones) have always been especially strong; nationally, Peronistas have generally claimed from a fourth to a third of the ballots since the strongman was deposed ten years ago. Only the strong hand...
...Lobo") Vandor, who would like to exercise power in PerÓn's name, and those, marshaled in Argentina for the past four months by shapely Isabel PerÓn, el lider's third wife, who would-understandably-favor el retorno of PerÓn from Spain. Even that diversion may soon end. Last week El Lobo ("the Wolf") ousted Isabella's chief lieutenant, José Alonso, as general secretary of the giant General Confederation of Labor. If Peronism should ever triumph, it looks more and more as though the strongman will have to enjoy his reign...
Ernest Hemingway met A. E. Hotchner in 1948, and the world-famous novelist and the relatively unknown magazine writer soon became fast friends. They went fishing together in Cuba, watched bullfights in Spain, hunted the pheasant country of Idaho, and toured France. "Papa" and "Hotch" got along so well together that Papa gave his friend the right to adapt some of his novels and short stories for movies and TV. And because they were inseparable companions, Hotch became aware of Papa's gradually increasing periods of depression, his dark and suicidal moods. There was a time when Hemingway tried...