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INTIMATES of Spain's new Vice Premier often call him Facha -a Castilian expression implying "What a sight!" Though he is a dandy in his uniform, Agustin Munoz Grandes has never liked the pomp of his office as chief of Spain's General Staff, and has remained a relatively modest man. He regularly attends soccer games in Madrid dressed in sports clothes more suitable to a workman; he and his wife live in a small, unpretentious apartment, and he rolls his own small black cigarettes. Unlike other Cabinet ministers who tool around Madrid in chauffeur-driven Cadillacs...
...stubbornly clung to all the reins of power and refused publicly to designate a successor. Last week, giving way to growing pressure for change and acknowledging his 69 years, Franco did what few dictators have the nerve to do: selected an heir apparent. His choice: tough, crusty Captain General Agustin Munoz Grandes, 66, chief of the Spanish General Staff and an old friend of El Candillo's (see box). Munoz Grandes was named to the newly created post of Vice Premier and delegated to take charge of Spain's government in the event of Franco's "vacancy...
Still full and unreserved are Dictator Francisco Franco's prestige and power with the group that counts most in today's Spain, the army. Perhaps the Caudillo's closest friend and ally is the Chief of the General Staff, Captain General Agustin Munoz Grandes, who commanded Franco's Blue Division when it fought beside the Nazis on the Russian front in 1941, and who has an iron grip on the military units...
...Competitions are the only way to give impetus to a career-until someone thinks of a better way," said Pianist Agustin Anievas last week. He spoke with authority: Anievas had just won the first annual Dimitri Mitropoulos International Music Competition-a brand-new contest designed to uncover talented new pianists both from the U.S. and abroad...
...soda pop, cereal and children's medicines. Since then Janette, now 4, has piled up enough pesos to buy a small farm, where she languishes weekends with the aplomb of a Hollywood starlet, tending her flocks of ducks and chickens and her pet pig. Janette's father, Agustin Arceo, a salesman of auto lubricants, objects to all this, but is solidly outnumbered by the rest of the' family (Luis, now 13, has also received his announcer's license...