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Name the man who became the first Spaniard to win a gold medal at the Winter Games...
...explaining that he could not urge others to go to war unless he himself was willing to fight. Helpless without his glasses but ever anxious to assert his manhood, he headed the victorious Rough Riders, a ragtag group of Ivy Leaguers and hard-bitten frontiersmen out to "drive the Spaniard from the New World." Teddy came home as the most popular man in America and a cinch for the Republican ticket in 1900. Elected Vice President, he fretted about how he would keep busy. Six months after he took office, his worries on that score were over...
...dress as costume. In the '40s and '50s his style of accouterment was a wonder of Manhattan-cane, tight four-button suits, massive cuff links, a bowler hat, and a mustache that almost rivaled Dali's in local celebrity: not the zigzag antennae of the Spaniard but a drooping bunch of Habsburg bristle, which in his last years came to resemble the questing barbels of an old and sagacious carp...
Spain has had a 20% rise in tourism so far this year, and by the end of 1978, officials expect to have welcomed a whopping 37 million visitors-one for every Spaniard. Those numbers will probably continue to rise in the future, despite last month's calamitous explosion of a chemical truck killing more than 150 campers. The government has legalized gambling at 18 resorts, mainly on the coast, and four of the planned casinos have just opened. The 150-mile Costa del Sol is already overcrowded. Sewage treatment in some places is appalling; human feces...
...Europe. (The Grand Duke of Hesse enabled him to add the aristocratic von to his name by making him a baron.) Von Hirsch bought his first painting, a Toulouse-Lautrec, in 1907, and about that time also picked up a canvas dated 1901 by a 26-year-old Spaniard named Pablo Picasso. It was in the 1920s and early '30s, however, that Von Hirsch assembled his medieval collection. In 1933, as the political climate in Germany grew ugly, Von Hirsch, a Jew, moved across the Swiss border to Basel. He won permission to take his collection with...