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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...
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...
Taking off from Geneva at midnight (and so rapidly that the F.L.N. leaders left their baggage behind), the Boeing flew at maximum altitude along a route (Milan, Barcelona, Madrid) that avoided all French territory and, four hours later, put down at the U.S. Air Force Base at Nouasseur, Morocco, where F.L.N. Pre mier Benyoussef Benkhedda and a clutch of Moroccan officials sipped Coca-Cola -courtesy of the base commander - while they waited...