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Only a minority of the Spanish Basques still live in the remote mountain fastnesses or on the Bay of Biscay and follow their ancient occupations of shepherding, fishing and smuggling. About 80% now live in such pulsating industrial centers as Bilbao and the area around San Sebastian, where they have risen to many middle-management jobs and acquired a reputation as shrewd bankers and businessmen...
...Basque Nation and Freedom), a dedicated clan of about 600 Basque extremists. Since their military leader, Eustaqui Mendizabel, was killed in a Shootout with police last April, the Basques had been silent. Earlier this month, however, they burst into action again, invading an exclusive yacht club near Bilbao. While gunmen forced 100 diners to lie on the floor, other Basques set fire to the building, a symbol of a moneyed, privileged class favored by the Franco regime. Other more minor incidents, like the blowing up of cars, occurred in the following days, and there were reports-probably unfounded-that...
Arrupe started toward that rendezvous in Hiroshima some two decades earlier in Madrid, where he had gone to study medicine. The only son among five children of a wealthy architect and newspaper publisher, he had grown up in comfort in the Basque city of Bilbao. The slums of Madrid shocked him: "I found terrible suffering−widows with children begging for bread, sick people begging for medicine, waifs running through the streets like stray dogs...
...price of prosperity is also being paid in terms of rampant inflation that is currently running at the rate of 1% a month at the same time that the expansion which fueled it is tapering somewhat. In Catalonia, Asturias and Bilbao, housewives recently defied a government ban and demonstrated against rising food prices. At a time when Spain is undergoing rapid change, and faces the pain of adjustment to a new political era, inflation of that magnitude is an ever-present worry to the nation's economic-and political -managers...
LANNING'S VERSION of the Bilbao Song, a favorite of every dance band leader from Phil Spitalny to Lester Lanin, has style, good pacing, and impressive delivery, as does Hal Watters' interpretation of "Johnny's Song" from Johnny's Johnson. The high point of the first act, however, is the company's performance of "As You Make Your Bed," from Mahagonny, a bitter comment on the rise of Nazism. "Progress," with lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner '40, is a humorous, entertaining comment on the American economy which gets a good audience reaction...