Word: barcelona
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...entered a Barcelona school to sit with boys less than half his age to study Latin, then threw himself into a dizzying year of courses at the University of Alcalá. Out of it came Inigo's conviction that learning must be organized to be useful. The idea eventually grew into the Jesuits' famed ratio studiorum (plan of studies), which measured out heavy but manageable doses of classics, humanities and sciences...
...press of Trujillo, Honduras, that he has assembled a nightclub act of internationally famous cabaret stars. They include Señor Blind Joe Jackson (el blues cantante de Jackson, Mississippi), Giuseppe y Giovanni (el duo dinamico de Milano, Italia), and Las Dos La-La-Las (dos chiquitas frivolantes de Barcelona, Espa...
...What some educated Spaniards would like, but few think is feasible, is the establishment of true political parties, one of which would share the philosophy of West Germany's moderate middle-class Christian Democrats. "We had no middle class in Spain before the war," says Barcelona Banker Ramon Trias Fargas. "But we have one now, and these people have no voice in politics-yet." Franco adamantly refuses to give them one. Only two months ago he rejected a proposal by moderate advisers that he allow a variety of nonradical political parties under the sheltering umbrella of the National Movement...
...Spain can afford to do without Europe. The nation that up to now has contributed mainly maids and labor and a place in the sun to the rest of the Continent desperately needs "the political education or background to know how to get what we want," as University of Barcelona Student Victoria Gaya puts...
...last April at the Swiss Credit Bank in the name of "H.R. Hughes" by a slim, attractive blonde woman, 42 years old, 5½ ft. tall, weighing 100 lbs., who spoke English and very bad German. She carried a Swiss passport issued in 1969 by the Swiss consul in Barcelona, Spain. It identified her as "Helga R. Hughes." To open the account, the woman signed "H.R. Hughes" on a signature card. A bank officer compared the writing with her passport signature. The two seemed to match, and the woman deposited 1,000 French francs ($180) to open the account. Interestingly...