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...Captain General Agustin Muñoz Grandes, 69, Franco's oldest comrade in arms and the man who, as Vice President of the Spanish state, will take over interim power at Franco's death. Commander of Spain's Blue Division, which fought against the Russians on Hitler's eastern front, Armed Forces Chief Muñoz Grandes is now ailing, lives quietly with his wife in a small apartment in Madrid, avoids publicity...
...Courage. Until last March, an avowed Communist, Eli de Gotari, 41, was rector of the university. In an act of courage, Michoacan's anti-Communist Governor, Agustin Arriaga Rivera, dismissed De Gotari, after 40 days of student riots that ended only when a student was killed and the federal government sent troops to surround the school and jets to buzz the city. Last month an audit of the university's books showed that during his 17 months in office, De Gotari had doled out $51,600 in university funds to anti-U.S. or pro-Communist organizations...
When Esperanza Rojas was 15, she fell in love with 19-year-old Agustin Infante. After an eight-day courtship, they set up housekeeping in a Caracas slum. They gave no thought to matrimony, but then neither had Esperanza's mother nor her older brothers and sisters. The love affair was stormy, filled with arguments and fights, and twice Esperanza went home to mother, each time swollen with child. Now, four years later, Esperanza and her two children live with her mother in a wood-and-cardboard shack, and she accepts her deserted, unwed state as quite natural...
...Pianist Agustin Anievas, 28, made Carnegie Hall debut with a program ot Mozart. Chopin. Brahms, Liszt and Sessions Anievas won last year's Dimitn Mitropoulos International Music Competition beating out 46 other pianists and earning as part of his prize the S. Hurok-sponsored debut. From a year away, Anievas and Hurok unerringly picked the first week of the strike. "This would be my luck," said Anievas gloomily, "to pick a week when the press is out for lunch. As things turned out, it was probably just as well. Despite his virtuoso technique. Anievas' playing lacked authority...
There had, in fact, been picks and shovels, but they had been supplied by the Franco regime. Moving with a speed unprecedented in Spain, El Caudillo's efficient new Vice Premier, Captain General Agustin Mufioz Grandes, had been in Barcelona within twelve hours after the flood, quickly arranged for rescue and relief operations. Workers were promised 90% of their base pay until their destroyed plants were reopened. Factory owners received $16 million in easy credit. Farmers got pledges of machinery and fertilizer to revive about 2,000 ravaged acres of land. Thus, when Franco arrived at the Barcelona cathedral...