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...which had paralyzed southern Europe swept down over the Pyrenees and deposited a blanket of frost which chilled to the bone millions of lightly dressed Spaniards living in unheated homes and, far worse, ruined the crops on hundreds of thousands of olive, almond and citrus trees. Hardest hit was Valencia, where the thermometer registered an all-time low of 16°, and some 400,000 tons of oranges were frozen into balls of ice as they hung on the trees. Surveying the damage last week, Spanish syndicates estimated a loss of $50 million in citrus exports and a $75 million...
That same day, 400 miles away, the 200 village families of Navajas near Valencia dedicated a plaque reading: "To Fleming as a sign of gratitude." By week's end Barcelona, Spain's most bustling city (pop. 1,087,099) unveiled a marble bust, and the Gijón scene was repeated. Madrid soon will have its monument; Manzanares already has its Calle Fleming...
...winding, concrete Pan American Highway. From the back seat of a Cadillac limousine, a short, rotund man in khaki took in the fleeting sights: trucks piled high with sugar cane, drowsy town plazas seared to a dry-season brown, the jet air base near Maracay, and scenic Lake Valencia, a shimmering turquoise in a chartreuse valley. But most of the time Colonel Marcos Pérez Jiménez, President of Venezuela, eyed a low, sleek, two-seater Mercedes-Benz sports car that rolled along with the cavalcade...
...Valencia, his patience ran out. Stopping the procession, he strode over to the Mercedes-Benz, settled into the red-leather driver's seat, pulled down the top-hinged door and streaked...
...Africa were unhappy about subsidized export of U.S. oranges; Thailand and Burma objected to rice dumping. From. Spain came a lament about the distribution of free American milk to poor children. Spanish dairymen insisted that the U.S. largesse was having a ruinous effect on their business; milk purchases in Valencia...