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Still, the popular favorite was old Pablo Casals, the stubborn, spirited Spaniard who exiled himself when the Loyalists were defeated in 1939. And to delighted Israeli officials, nothing was more encouraging about the entire festival than the success of the one-shot performance at Caesarea. With a baited line out for tourists (some 4,000 from Europe and the U.S. attended this year's festival), they began charting plans to speed reconstruction of the long dead city, to refurbish the theater to accommodate 4,000, as it did in Roman times, and to center future festivals in Caesarea...
...Spaniard's greatest contribution to modern society has been his dogged refusal to conform to it-especially to its drab, workaday timetable. No self-respecting Madrileno would think of lunching before 2 p.m., or returning to the office before 4. Matinees in Madrid begin at 7 p.m.. evening performances at 11. The cocktail hour starts at 8:30, and until he sits down to his supper at some undeterminable time after 10 p.m., the Spaniard believes it is still afternoon...
...Beginning June 1, shops must close at 7 p.m., groceries by 8. Theaters and cinemas will let out at 11:30 p.m.-just when most patrons in late-running Spain are puffing down the aisle to their seats. And, as if no indignity is too much for the burdened Spaniard to bear, the government has ordered restaurants and cafes to pull down their iron shutters at the afternoonish hour of midnight. Wondered an incredulous professor as he sipped coñac at Madrid's longhaired Cafe Gijón (which normally closes at 3:30 a.m.): "If they close...
Long & Patient. They quickly learned otherwise-and so did Gimeno's fellow pros. In his first professional match, the lanky (6 ft. 2 in., 160 Ibs.) Spaniard defeated Peru's Alex Olmedo. He then won 16 of his next 24 matches, earned the right to meet Pancho Gonzales in a 29-match, head-to-head contest for the professional championship of the world. On court, Gimeno bears a startling resemblance to the young Bill Tilden. His ground strokes are long, faultless and patient. His big serve darts and leaps. His apparent lethargy masks lightning-quick reflexes. Says Australia...
...been called "the last pirate of the Mediterranean," "a soul of the Middle Ages," and "the Rockefeller of Spain." None of these titles quite fits the fantastic career and character of Juan Alberto March y Ordinas, a stooped, eagle-beaked Spaniard who in his ninth decade is perhaps the world's most mysterious and powerful billionaire. Shrewd and ruthless, the shadowy figure of Juan March has floated across the face of Europe for more than half a century, bringing public officials low, underwriting dictators, helping to finance two world wars (on both sides), and buying himself virtual immunity from...