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...beginning of the Spanish revolution in 1936, according to British Author John Langdon-Davies, the proletariat of Barcelona took to promenading hatless and tieless along the fashionable Rambla. In a ringing editorial, the syndicalist paper, Worker Solidarity, hailed this gesture of defiance of bourgeois convention. Then Worker Solidarity was faced with a storm of protest from the hat and necktie workers' unions. The paper abruptly reversed itself, came out for hats and ties on the Rambla...
...shuttles between two studios, a small one in Paris' Rue de Téhéran and a big one in Barcelona. At week's end he dashed back to Spain to continue work on an 18-by-17-ft. mural for Harvard University's new graduate center. The mural, he says hopefully, "will enable me to establish close contact with the students, the young men of tomorrow. It is better to influence the young generation than to try to convert stubborn...
...Little Misguided. Soon after he became a minister, a call came to Barcelona-to the largest Protestant church (300 members) in Catalonia. Benito went to his boss at the bar and explained why he wanted to leave. When he discovered that he had been harboring a fledgling Protestant pastor, the proprietor was horror-struck. "I am a ruined man!" he groaned.* When word got around, the president of the Parliament thundered: "Where is this man? I want to slap his face. Shame on you for having sheltered...
This year's drought, the worst in ten years, puts Spain in a desperate position. Grain is critically short--Madrid's otherwise fertile surrounding plains were brown scorched dust. Necessary raw materials, except in the relatively prosperous Barcelona section, are virtually non-existent, partly because of Spain's low productivity, and partly because of few favorable trade agreements; mechanical equipment such as tractors is for the far-distant future. Railroad stock, built before the 1936 Civil War, is worn out: trains are the slowest, dirtiest, most uncomfortable in Europe...
When he took off his pants in a sleeping compartment of the Barcelona-Bilbao express one night last week, New York's Congressman Eugene J. Keogh, Democrat, made a serious mistake. He hung them near the open window. In the next compartment, Congressman James P. Richards, Democrat, of South Carolina, undressed and did likewise. When they woke up, both pairs of pants were gone...