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...succeeded to any degree in defying the regime. Outside of Spain opposition is more active. The political parties and trade unions that existed under the Republic continue to thrive in exile. A Spanish government in exile with representatives in a number of countries, as well as smaller Basque and Catalan groups, maintain head-quarters in Paris. The Mecca of Spanish exiles in Latin America is Mexico, which has never recognized Franco's government. In addition, Czechoslovakian Radio Pirane beams programs into Spain on a regular basis and El Mundo Obrero, the organ of the Spanish Communist Party, appears mysteriously...
Died. Carmen Amaya, 50, Spanish flamenco dancer, a volcanic Catalan gypsy whose machine-gun castanets, stomps, swirls and fiercely elegant cadenzas won her star billing on both sides of the Atlantic in the 1930s and '40s, and earned for her up to $14,000 a week, which she largely lavished upon Romany schools and charities, leading Spanish gypsies to call her "our good mother"; of chronic kidney disease; in Bagur, Spain...
ANTONI TAPIES-Martha Jackson, 32 East 69th St. Lumpy canvases filled with shapes hacked and gouged out of rubberized marble dust have a grim sobriety that evokes the sun-parched Catalan world the artist lives in. Through...
...tension and maneuverings behind the portly figure of the Caudillo. The style of his reporting is vividly fresh. Reid takes the reader into open cafes and closed discussions, where he allows him to have a glass of wine and eavesdrop. The speakers are Basque seamen and financiers, Catalan laborers, Castillian artists. The mood is apprehensive, comic, and speculative by turns. Reid is very enthusiastic about this method, which he calls "creative reportage." With it, he tries to convey "how it feels to be alive in a particular place in a particular time...
First on the scene was Juan Carlos. The prince stepped off the plane from Lisbon with an inappropriately gay smile and wearing impeccably cut sports clothes. Accompanied by his wife, Greek Princess Sophie, he set out for an inspection trip surrounded by foppishly elegant Catalan aristocrats. They were received unenthusiastically by small crowds of grieving townsfolk. Shouted a group of grimy men in Tarrasa: "Less talk and more pick and shovel...