Word: barcelona
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There a friend of Don Juan's got a cable from Messina, Sicily, signed "Con-de Barcelona" (one of his titles), saying he would be along four days hence. When he arrived, Prendergast found him wearing a sailor's blue dungarees, faded blue canvas sneakers and "for reasons I'll never know, only one sock. I like the man tremendously...
Patient Stoic. The man with the best chance and with most at stake in the outcome is a 6-ft. 3-in. blueblood who has not lived in Spain for 31 years. He is Don Juan de Borbon y Battenberg, 49, Count of Barcelona and Pretender to the Spanish throne, which he and his monarchist supporters are certain will be restored when Franco goes. Until that happens, he can only wait restlessly in self-imposed exile at Estoril, Portugal's glittering resort, or take the handsome yacht Saltillo for endless cruises in the Mediterranean-an embodiment of his country...
...legendary Red amazon of the Civil War). Since Franco's own press and radio were suppressing the whole matter. Prague was the only Spanish-language source of news about the spreading strikes in other parts of Spain: thousands of shipbuilders and metal workers in Bilbao, many more in Barcelona. In all. 100,000 Spaniards in other areas were off the job in sympathy with the 60,000 striking Asturians...
Heartened by Roman Catholic Church support for their demands, some 1,000 striking workers in Barcelona gathered around the palace of Archbishop Gregorio Modrego y Casáus, seeking more aid in their dispute with employers. When police pushed to the scene, priests mingled with the protesting mob to restrain both workers and police from violence. Finally the archbishop himself appeared, to urge calm and send the workers on their...
Dealing with his most worrisome political problem in 15 years. Dictator Franco once again postponed his much-delayed fishing trip to Asturias, canceled a trip to Barcelona, where he was to have opened an international trade fair...