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Sprawled around the semicircle of red-cushioned seats in the Palais Bourbon are six main groupings and a pivotal splinter...
...Madrid's Delicias Station one morning last week, a thousand ardent Spanish monarchists shouted a lusty welcome to 17-year-old Prince Juan Carlos de Bourbon, who arrived from Lisbon after spending a vacation with his exiled father, Pretender Don Juan. The train was ceremoniously brought into the station by the Count of Alcubierre, an amateur engine driver, while dukes and marquesas cried "Viva el Rey." Stern Franco police made no effort to interfere. The demonstration was enthusiastic but possibly a little premature: as Franco now sees it, 13 years must elapse before Prince Juan can become king (TIME...
...money pile is Louisville, a city that is better known for bourbon than Beethoven, and probably always will be. But the Louisville Orchestra has just rounded out its first year of a four-year plan that has made it the world's busiest performer of new music: under a $400,000 grant from the Rockefeller Foundation (TIME, Jan. 18, 1954), it has commissioned and played a new work for almost every week in the year. Records and tapes are played on Louisville's closed circuit and radio programs are also sent to the Voice of America...
Outside, newspaper headlines proclaimed the moment décisif. Long lines of Communist demonstrators stood stolidly in the fog and rain, and in distant capitals, statesmen kept anxious watch. Inside the Palais Bourbon, Premier Pierre Mendes-France wrestled grimly with the French Assembly, trying to drag France back into the ranks of the Atlantic Alliance from which these same Deputies had all but resigned the week before...
...long view of history, worry about his succession. Seven years ago they persuaded Franco to promulgate a law declaring Spain to be "a Catholic and social state which, in accordance with its tradition, is constituted a monarchy." But Franco bucked at letting touchy, British-trained Don Juan de Bourbon, son of the dethroned Alfonso XIII, move into Madrid's Royal Palace. So he added a subtle clause saying that it was a question of "awaiting the right moment to install the first King of the legitimate dynasty...