Word: bilbao
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...tall, corpulent, retired (65) engineer and widower, Don Francisco owns a handsome two-story house on the busy Calle de los Reyes Catolicos. He himself occupies the upper floor. Below are the offices of the Banco de Bilbao, which for 15 years has paid him a yearly rent of 12,000 pesetas ($1,080), now about one-tenth of what the landlord could get from a new tenant. Don Francisco pleaded inflation and asked for more rent from Bank Manager Jose Santamaria. Then he tried litigation. He got nowhere...
RAFAEL PEDRO DE AZQUETA Bilbao, Spain...
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...
...more so because, when Evita Peron visited Madrid two years ago, Father Benitez was a much sought-out member of her party. Madrid's press fairly sizzled. Ya wrote: "It makes one wonder whether the priest's mother had a weakness for a Frenchman." Editorialized Bilbao's El Correo Espanol: "A bilious and ill-adapted clergyman...
...regime still does not dare slacken the pace of its political persecution, and underground warfare is spreading; guerrillas are now equipped with better arms, including machine guns (presumably from France). More effective than sporadic warfare was last month's general strike in the crucial industrial area of Bilbao, when some 35,000 men stayed home in protest against the provincial governor's punishment of workers who had observed May Day. But there is no power in Spain today that can seriously threaten Franco's rule...