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Civil War Hero V. A. Antonov-Ovseyenko (he led the Bolshevik attack on the Winter Palace in the 1917 uprising in Leningrad) was recalled from Barcelona where he was a Soviet military adviser during the Spanish civil war, hauled out of his train by the NKVD. so the story went, and shot beside the tracks...
Last week, as the zero hour for the student demonstration approached, all Spain was alert, eyes expectantly concentrated on the big cities of Madrid and Barcelona. But it was in the Navarre mountain-encircled city of Pamplona (pop. 73,000), famed for its bullfight fiesta, that the trouble started...
...paraded the city's sunny streets in their best clothes. The strike fever spread to the Basque city of Bilbao (scene of a 1953 stoppage of shipbuilders), Tolosa, San Sebastian and other northern towns. Thus far only workers in small dispersed industries were affected, but when metalworkers in Barcelona walked off their jobs, the government got tough. Army General Felipe Acedo, governor of Barcelona, promptly jailed strikers and closed the struck factories...
Monthly expenses in Spain vary from $40 to $60. The most important Spanish Universities offering summer courses to foreigners are located at Barcelona, Madrid, Santiago, Seville Valladolid, and Zaragoza. In addition, Spanish language and history instruction is scheduled in special summer schools in Cadiz, Pamplona and Santander. The People's University of Segovia gives a one-month course on art history. Most institutions begin teaching early in July, with the Barcelona, Seville, and Valladolid universities starting in August...
Bearded poet and ex-member of the class of '58, Peter Heliczer leaped from the liner "Roman" last week as it sailed between Gibraltar and Barcelona. "It was merely a poetic action," Heliczer said after ship's officers had hauled him aboard. On arrival in Italy he commented "I'm not at all fed up with life. I'm going to Rome and expect to have a very good time...