Año: 1962

  • Max Deubel, campeón del mundo, gana una carrera de sidecares en el circuito de Montjuic

    La settimana Incom 02227 del 23/05/1962
    A Barcellona corsa di sidecar
    Descrizione sequenze:Barcellona, circuito di Montjuich: partenza della corsa di sidecar ; momenti della gara ; incendio durante la gara del motore di un sidecar, i motociclisti scendonoe corrono via ; interviene un vigile del fuoco che spegne l’incendio ; arrivo al traguardo del tedesco Deubel ; i fotografi riprendono i due vincitori della gara ;

  • Inauguración de El Corte Inglés

    Escales mecàniques i deu plantes dedicades al consum. El Corte Inglés va obrir les portes fa 50 anys a la plaça Catalunya de Barcelona i va revolucionar la ciutat. Havia nascut una icona de la capital. Uns 500 convidats van assistir el 20 de setembre del 1962 a la inauguració de l’edifici de la plaça de Catalunya. La premsa de l’època es va fer ressò que aquells grans magatzems que obrien les portes al cor de Barcelona tenien 900 esglaons d’escales mecàniques, una novetat que va atreure l’atenció de ciutadans encuriosits.

    A la capital catalana hi havia altres espais comercials, com Can Jorba, però aquella innovació comercial va transformar per sempre més el paisatge del centre de Barcelona, perquè no hi havia precedents d’uns grans magatzems amb aquella oferta de consum. El desembarcament d’El Corte Inglés no va generar indiferència en cap sentit. «A Barcelona, la notícia s’havia pres amb la cautela i la prevenció que implicava l’arribada d’una empresa de Madrid», apunta Jordi Pintó, director de relacions externes i comunicació del grup a Catalunya.

  • Inundaciones en el llano de Barcelona

    Torrential rains hit the industrial center of Barcelona yesterday [report published November 5], spilling the new waters into areas still recovering from last September’s savage floods.

    Officials said damage was heavy in Barcelona and the nearby towns of Tarrasa and Sabadell. The rains continued late last night.

    No casualties were reported.

    Swirling waters flooding some low-lying areas destroyed temporary railway bridges in Moncada and Las Arenas that were erected after the original bridges were washed out in September.

    […]

    Road and railway communications between Barcelona and Tarrasa and Sabadell were cut but telephone communications functioned normally.

  • Crimen de los Existencialistas

    Americans Sentenced in Spain

    BARCELONA, Spain (AP) – A Spanish civil court sentenced four Americans, a Spanish woman and a British girl to long prison terms today [1964/03/16] for the robbery-murder of a Barcelona furniture dealer.

    THE SENTENCES were:

    • James Bell Wagner, 23, of Union Beach, N.J., 30 years;
    • Mrs. Maria del Pilar Alfaro Velasco, 32, Spanish mother of two daughters, 23 years;
    • John Joseph Hand, 40, Southfield, Mich., and James Stephen Johnston, 30, Bluejacket, Okla., 21 years each;
    • Mrs. Nancy Karen Hand, 25, Detroit, Mich., 12 years and one day.
    • Joan Douglas Bryder [Bryden?], 22, a British librarian, 6 years.

    The prosecution had asked the death penalty for Wagner and the Spanish woman, 20 years for Hand and Johnston, 12 years for Mrs. Hand and six years for Miss Bryder.

    Court attaches said the prison terms would be cut at least in half by an amnesty which Generalissimo Franco ordered upon the election of Pope Paul VI and a second amnesty expected April 1 in connection with the 25th anniversary of the end of the Spanish Civil War.

    The six prisoners were arrested after the slaying Nov. 17, 1962, of Francisco Robirosa, 50, in his shop. The crime netted only $33 in loot.

    Wagner admitted he entered Robirosa’s shop to rob the man. The prosecution contended the Spanish woman planned the crime and the others were accomplices.

    BECAUSE OF THE defendants’ admissions of illict relations, of the use of drugs, and of other activities, the case was called by Spanish newsmen «The Trial of the Existentialists.»

    The prosecutor described all six defendants as drifters who lived by their wits.

    Wagner, a deserter from a U.S. Army Signal Corps battalion in Germany, and petite Maria del Pilar Alfaro escaped the death sentence – and execution by Spain’s garrote – because there was no proof of premedidation in Robirosa’s murder, the court indicated.

    More than 1,500 persons jammed the old provincial courtroom to witness the sentencing.

  • Expedida la matrícula B-300.000 a un ómnibus Pegaso

    La matrícula B-300.000, expedida el 30 de noviembre de 1962, fue entregada a un ómnibus Pegaso.

  • La Gran Nevada, y una conversión radiofónica de Dalí a la Verdadera Fe

    That morning the patio of my parents’ home appeared covered in snow and I couldn’t believe it. To start with, I thought it was part of my mother’s Christmas decorations. I remember that December 25th very well. Me with a scarf inside the house, listening to my mother say that for a city like Barcelona, so abandoned by the hand of God, it was a blessing that, even if it was only the once, He should have remembered us and brought us snow on the most appropriate day, Christmas Day, with divine punctuality.

    For me, Christmas Day will always be the day of the Great Snowfall. Wrapped in two jerseys and a scarf inside the house, I switched on the radio and suddenly we heard a message of peace and Christmas goodwill from Salvador Dalí, a few emotional words from the Ampurdán painter telling us that, from that day on, he planned to orient all his life toward Franco’s Spain and the family: «Isabella the Catholic, consecrated hosts, melons, rosaries, truculent indigestion, bullfights, Calanda drums and Ampurdán sardines. To sum up: my life must be oriented toward Spain and the family.»

    We listened to that message in respectful silence mixed with some astonishment. The snow fell stealthily on the patio outside, as at the beginning of a Christmas tale.

    «Dalí’s turned into one of us,» said my father.