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...Bourbons to Spain. But absent was the commoner who alone could decide whether Juan Carlos would ever take the Spanish throne: Spain's Dictator Francisco Franco. Far from the hoopla in Athens, El Caudillo was in Spain last week dealing with the most serious unrest to beset his 24-year rule...
...Beset by had racing conditions and jinxed courses, Coach Harvey Love's oarsmen have not had a real chance to prove themselves. Love has made two changes in the varsity boat that lost last week's race, and, weather permitting, Saturday's race may decide what the heavyweights will do for the rest of the year...
...Allies on the latest in the U.S.-Soviet talks, sample their moods and rally their support. No matter what the West Germans do, France will doubtless remain stiffly aloof, for Charles de Gaulle remains adamantly opposed to any Berlin negotiations "under threat." Besides, he feels that the Russians are beset by grave internal troubles, that there is now less reason than ever for even the semblance of concessions to Moscow...
...statements have more power to depress the average U.S. businessman, beset as he is by a daily avalanche of forms, reports and correspondence, than the late "Engine Charlie" Wilson's axiom that "nothing takes place in the world of government or business that is not motivated by a piece of paper." Every repetition of this dictum, however, brings a beatific smile to the face of bulky, deliberate Milferd Aaron Spayd, 61, of Dayton, Ohio. Thanks to U.S. industry's ever deeper entrapment in paperwork, Spayd's Standard Register Co. has surged from onetime bankruptcy to buoyant prosperity...
...this year, unlike last, Cuba's revolutionaries have very little to congratulate themselves about. The regime still stands -a well-armed dictatorship is not easily overthrown, as the Bay of Pigs fiasco demonstrated. Yet it is a leadership in disarray, increasingly ostracized by its hemispheric neighbors, beset by economic catastrophe and torn by a bitter, not yet settled internal struggle for power...