Word: iberia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Barber: Symphony #2; Bach: Sonata #3 in G for Cello and Piano; Albeniz: Iberia; Boccherini: Quartet in Eb Major; Beethoven: Symphony...
...progress toward economic freedom is likely to be slow, is already being fought by Minister of Industry Joaquin Planell Riera, who runs the state-owned industries. At first the government may give private businessmen a share in its consumer-goods and service industries, such as textile plants and the Iberia Air Lines, while holding fast to shipyards, auto plants, utilities and oil refineries...
Morocco's Sultan ben Youssef, Mohammed V, only 31 months ago exiled by the French to remote Madagascar, was being courted like a king. At Rabat airport last week, as he stepped aboard an Iberia Super-Constellation for a visit to Spain, a band played the Marseillaise, and French High Commissioner Andre Louis Dubois was at his side to remind him that Morocco owed its new "independence within interdependence" to France. Hours later in Madrid, Dictator Franco and a phalanx of bemedaled Falangists roared an ovation to show that they also had something to give the Sultan...
...Super-Constellation Pinta of Iberia Airlines was coming in for its scheduled landing at Bermuda on the run from Havana to Madrid. It was 11:15 Pm. Captain Don Fernando Bengoa, 37, was at the controls. Also aboard was Captain Fernando Rein-Loring, 53, the airline's chief pilot. As the Pinta let down for the landing, the right wheel of the tricycle landing gear stuck. Captain Rein-Loring and Pilot Bengoa tried unsuccessfully to dislodge it with the emergency hand pump. Captain Bengoa made several low passes over the field so the ground crew could inspect the wheel...
Today, under President Jesus Rubio Paz, who started as a pilot in 1937, Iberia is beginning to expand into the transatlantic market. Last August the line inaugurated its first U.S.-Madrid flight with three nonstop Lockheed Super-Constellations, bought entirely with its own profits. Says President Paz, whose three new Super-Connies are named the Pinta, Niña, and Santa Maria, after Columbus' tiny fleet: "Our crossings will build a sort of aerial bridge, subtle and invisible, on the common ground of friendship...