Word: spain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...free men of any generation your cover story on Spain [Jan. 21], was an affront not worthy of TIME'S reasonably impartial standards. The tortured many who fought fascism in 1937 would turn in their unmarked graves to see Franco against a background of a green tree...
...TIME'S article is particularly welcome to me personally. As U.S. Ambassador to Spain from 1955 to 1961, I had to cope constantly with the ignorance and prejudice, of some of our compatriots with respect to Spain's history, her customs and her prospects. There is no country geographically so near to the U.S. around which so much legend and so many myths have clustered. Much of this rather sad misunderstanding was started at the time of the Spanish Civil War and during World War II. Certainly it is high time that the massive changes in Spain should...
Object of an extensive search was one of four hydrogen bombs-each, if detonated, capable of wiping out a city-that fell from a U.S. Air Force B-52 when it collided with a refueling tanker over Spain's coast on Jan. 17. Three of the bombs landed on Spanish soil and were readily recovered. The fourth fell into the sea just short of Almeria. Fishermen quickly rescued the bomber's four survivors but not the bomb. Some 2,000 American servicemen from Spanish bases undertook the search. To be sure, none of the deadly, multimegaton nuclear-bomb...
...mergers. In France, the Commissariat du Plan is setting up an interministerial committee to act as a sort of marriage bureau for companies that wish to get together. The British government announced last week that one task of the new Industrial Reorganization Corp. will be to sponsor "desirable regroupings." Spain's economic Development Plan calls for the "concentration of productive units." Common Market Commission President Walter Hallstein insists: "We must let more mergers go through...
...Rock was Gibraltar, that whale-headed monolith that was a minor prize and major symbol of the British Empire in its grandest days. Mocked the anti-imperialist Catholic poet Chesterton: "Gibraltar's a rock that you see very plain, and attached to its base is the district of Spain...