Word: spanishness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MADRID. Newsreels from five nations along with sensitive commentary spoken by such distinguished nonpartisans as John Gielgud and Irene Worth, power fully re-create the tragedy of the Spanish people during the wasting civil...
...story on post-Castro Cuba* and our second on Fidel since he came down from the hills and took over on the first day of 1959. In reporting this cover, as it happened, we did have a correspondent in Cuba-for a while. He is Gavin Scott, Canadian-born, Spanish-speaking chief of our Buenos Aires bureau, just back from his third visit to the island since 1962. This time the authorities tracked him down and packed him off, but not before he saw and heard enough to bring out a report full of new insights...
...Americans in guerrilla warfare, including 500 Venezuelans, 300 Peruvians, 200 Panamanians, 75 Dominicans, 60 Salvadorans. Trainees receive Guevara's La Guerra de Guerrillas and another handy pocket guide called 150 Questions on Guerrilla Warfare, written by Castro's old mentor, Alberto Bayo, a Communist veteran of the Spanish Civil War. Bayo's dedication reads: "To those who have died and are dying in the filthy dictatorial bourgeoise military oligarchic prisons in Latin America." The students spend from four weeks to a year learning about explosives, weapons and psychological warfare, then return home to await the proper time...
...pressed black ovoid forms caught between each. They could have been prisoners trapped behind bars or, as Modern Museum Curator Frank O'Hara suggests, "bulls' tails and testicles hung side by side on the wall of the arena after the fight." Motherwell titled it Elegy to the Spanish Republic, and has obsessively used the visual metaphor 102 times in the intervening 17 years, even adapting it to the Irish Rebellion, until it has become his trademark. For the Modern's show, five Elegies, ranging up to 20 ft. in length, were lined up side by side along...
...fixed or negotiated price. There are so many possibilities for the general public that a New York City adman, George E. Porcell, 25, has put together an 80-page catalogue of merchandise, already has orders for 8,000 copies at $2 each. For art collectors, the Spanish pavilion has listed a 47-inch, 16th century painted wood sculpture of the Virgin for $11,590, and the Philippine pavilion is offering to the highest bidder twelve hand-carved acacia-wood panels that depict Philippine history and took 30 workmen more than a year to make. The Philippines also want to dispose...