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...Proust's works that is prominently displayed in his office. Compère argues that les Proustiens, as the literary-minded tourists are known, are not even good for business. Says the mayor: 'They come from some place, eat a madeleine, see the Pré Catalan...
...regime were leaked reports that high Spanish officials, among them Foreign Minister Gregorio López Bravo, were grumbling privately about the trial. When 300 prominent artists and intellectuals began a 48-hour sit-in at the Abbey of Montserrat near Barcelona, the center of Spain's Catalan autonomy movement, officials demanded that Abbot Cassia Mauro just throw them all out on grounds that the protest was "a provocation." Replied the burly abbot: "So was the Burgos court-martial...
...under way until the guest of honor arrived with his all-cello orchestra. The performers had gathered from all over the world. Each cellist financed his own trip and donated his services for the privilege of being led by Pablo Casals in one of his brief compositions, a Catalan Sardana (an infinite number of cellos can play its eight-part harmony...
Spanish Influence. Rome's Daily American describes Berlinguer as "a movie type caster's idea of an Italian radical." He is slight, wiry, crewcut, courteous but cool in manner. He has dark, piercing eyes and the swarthy color of a Sardinian (Catalan influence in his native Sardinia accounts for his Spanish-sounding name). He is served well at interminably long party meetings by another physical attribute: he can sit for hours without getting sore or restless. For this, comrades at national headquarters on Rome's Via delle Botteghe Oscure call him culo di ferro, which roughly translates...
Died. Dom Aurelio Maria Escarre, 60, Catalan monk, who for 24 years as Abbot of Montserrat scrapped with the Franco regime until the government forced him into retirement three years ago; of a liver and kidney disease; in Barcelona. Dom Aurelio castigated the government for "not obeying the basic principles of Christianity," and turned Montserrat into a sanctuary, often protecting those sought by Franco's police...