Word: madrid
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...Hitler and Mussolini threaten the world, Franco marches on Madrid...
...ancient Inca empire, and no place for the timid. "When you see no trees," said one 16th century Spanish navigator, "you have reached Peru." The seacoast capital, Lima, is bigger than Detroit, and sleek modern skyscrapers crowd in on some of the most magnificent Spanish architecture this side of Madrid. Yet 400,000 of its 2,000,000 citizens squat in festering slums, among them the infamous Planeta, built next to a centuries-old garbage dump, where stony-faced Indians scrabble in the smoldering refuse...
...Khan and Cinemactress Rita Hayworth, 46, whom she flew down to visit in Manhattan last week. Rita had just finished making The Money Trap for MGM, and seemed almost relieved to report that Yasmin hasn't yet shown any interest in acting. "She came to visit me in Madrid last winter when I was making Circus World, and when she saw me getting up at 4:30 a.m. to go out on the set, she was just appalled...
...their ambassadors is a matter where a clumsy introduction or miscalculated place card can chill relations overnight. Accordingly, the post has traditionally gone to seasoned diplomats, and veteran socialites, such as Wiley Buchanan under Eisenhower, and "Angie" Duke, who is about to take over the U.S. embassy in Madrid...
After Hawkins came Francis Drake, a seagoing genius who found the pulsing lifeline of the Spanish empire-the great artery of gold that flowed from Peru to the Isthmus of Panama, and from the Isthmus to Madrid-and tore at it like a tiger. In his most famous exploit, Drake sailed up the west coast of South America, sacking the Spanish seaports as he passed. At Tarapaza, "being landed, we found by the Sea side a Spaniard lying asleepe, who had lying by him 13. barres of silver; we tooke the silver, and left the man." Off Colombia he seized...