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...have gone from shoe leather to traffic jams overnight," says a conservative Barcelona banker, and the analogy is apt. Ten years ago, Spain produced no automobiles, and foreign cars were so expensive (the import duty
...cities become that it would take him most of his three-hour lunch break to get home and back. The rush to the cities has had another effect as well. It is slowly breaking down the old regional barriers that have always divided Spain. There are still separatists in Barcelona, but their cause is dying fast: half the working force of Catalonia is now composed of forasteros from other parts of Spain...
...known as Franco's eminence grise - partly because everything about him, including his hair, suit, socks, tie and personality, seems grey. The appearance is deceiving. Son of a Catalan industrialist, he spent much of the civil war as an under ground Nationalist agent (code number: 711) in Republican Barcelona, went on to become Spain's youngest law professor, at 25, and an international authority on public administration. He is an avid tennis player, is up at 6:45 each morning and in his office at 8. Brilliant and tireless, he has a corps of loyal followers who have...
...walks of life have taken solace from Opus' sessions by reading more about God and the church, by simple communal association, and by studying the things that interest them-whether business administration, bullfighting, coal mining or early English literature. Opus Dei operates a sophisticated commerce school in Barcelona...
...Spanish monarchists, Franco's only legitimate successor would be Don Juan de Borbón y Battenberg, the strapping 52-year-old son of the late King Alfonso XIII. Don Juan's official title is Count of Barcelona, but monarchists already call him King Juan III,* and in his sprawling white villa at the Portuguese resort town of Estoril...