Word: andalusia
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After a 34-year exile in France, Sebastián Resales illegally re-enters the Spain of 1973. A veteran of the losing side in the Spanish Civil War, Resales must dodge Franco's police if he hopes to reach his native village to the south, in Andalusia. He has little money and no nostalgia for the scenes of past battles. All Resales possesses is macho dignity and the bitter sense that "he had been robbed of 37 years of his life-his life in the Alpujarras-by some stupid idea, some cause. What a stupidity...
Alex Vik, the team captain and reigning Norwegian Amateur champion, was low man for the Crimson with a 78, five strokes behind medalist Tom Day. Vik, who finished eighth in the European Amateur this summer at Graz, Austria, will jet to Andalusia next week for the World Amateur Championship held over the Penina golf course in Portugal. Golfers from 60 nations will participate...
Beguiling Blonde. At the outset of his reign, Juan Carlos' somewhat stiff public countenance led many Spaniards to think that he might not be the right man for their chief of state. But in three excursions to Catalonia, Andalusia and Asturias, he sparked rousing receptions and warmed to the affection of the crowds. Juan Carlos is helped immeasurably by beguiling blonde Queen Sofia, 37, who along with her royal demeanor has also shown surprising political skill. In the Catalan town of Manresa, Sofia dismissed the royal automobiles and led the King on a flesh-pressing 300-yard march...
...boom has speckled the Spanish sunshine with clouds that López Rodó's planners had not counted on. The country is counting the cost of rapid urbanization. Hopeful peasants are forsaking such dirt-poor regions as Andalusia or Estremadura for the industrial cities, where there is scarcely enough new housing to shelter even a fraction of them. Tourists too have paid part of the price of Spain's new prosperity. Stretches of the sunny coastlines are now so grotesquely overbuilt that they have become little more than ugly concrete jungles; the famed Costa...
...Worden travels between Andalusia and La Mancha at a time when "Inquisition ruffians" scour the hills for outlaws, and banditry is rampant. He is waylaid, not by brutes of any stripe, but by two gorgeous Moslem sisters whom he meets underneath a deserted inn. They claim they are descended from the family of van Worden's Iberian mother, and wish to love and share him equally because they love each other...