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FEDERICO CASTELLON-Dintenfass, 18 East 67th. An admirable show of the Spanish-born American absent from the New York scene for eleven years. A recent Society of American Graphic Artists' prizewinner, Castellon did these mute, melancholy lithographs in Paris. One of his titles speaks for them all: The End of Dreams. Through...
Among the habitues of MacArthur Park is Spanish-born Raymond Lopez, 71, a short, swarthy man with moist eyes set over deep purplish pouches. A retired Hollywood hairdresser, Lopez began frequenting the park last fall. Unlike most of the other people who spent a lot of their time in the park, he found something to do. He fed the birds, especially the ducks. There were dozens of ducks living along the boat lake. Most of them had been abandoned by people whose children had received ducklings as Easter gifts. Lopez became fond of the creatures, and he took to buying...
...Spanish-born Felix Candela of Mexico is perhaps the most unassuming architect alive. About the closest he has ever come to immodesty is to say of his shell-like concrete structures and umbrella roofs that "this is the most functional architecture there is." His adopted country enthusiastically agrees. There are more than 325 buildings in the republic that are at least structurally designed either by Candela or by authorized agents of his firm. Probably 100 more have sprung up in the rest of Latin America, as well as in the U.S. and Britain. But of all of these, none...
...Spanish-born Michel Del Castillo, 30, spent a harrowing childhood in European concentration camps, but was able to recall his experiences calmly and compassionately in a widely praised first novel, Child of Our Time. In his third novel, Del Castillo is more belligerent and less interesting. He now seems bent on taking revenge on all the adults who blighted his childhood in Franco's Spain...
...First Ladies were more sorely needed or more swiftly accepted than Belgium's Queen Fabiola. For years, Belgians had besought their remote, unhappy King Baudouin to take a wife. Though it was in the midst of the Congo crisis that Baudouin, now 31, announced his engagement to Spanish-born Doña Fabiola de Mora y Aragón, the whole country rejoiced...