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...chief of state. But in three excursions to Catalonia, Andalusia and Asturias, he sparked rousing receptions and warmed to the affection of the crowds. Juan Carlos is helped immeasurably by beguiling blonde Queen Sofia, 37, who along with her royal demeanor has also shown surprising political skill. In the Catalan town of Manresa, Sofia dismissed the royal automobiles and led the King on a flesh-pressing 300-yard march up the town's main street. In Asturias, the royal couple put on miners' attire and spent 90 minutes inspecting a coal mine. Last week, in an extraordinary...
With the exception of Barcelona, where their reception was cool, Juan Carlos and his handsome, tough-minded Queen Sofia, of the Greek royal family, were greeted by tumultuous, even ecstatic crowds. The King impressed the throngs at Montserrat by addressing them in the Catalan language. Many villages and small towns they visited were enveloped in a fiesta atmosphere. Crude posters of support sprouted in the dusty plazas, though some signs, as in Jerez de la Frontera, aired complaints: THE COTTON INDUSTRY is DYING. Carefully, Juan Carlos responded: "On such a short visit I am not in a position to examine...
These parties have united in a "common front of the left" within the last two weeks. Its program for post-Franco Spain includes the freeing of political prisoners; the recognition of independent labor unions; the reestablishment of Basque and Catalan autonomy; elections to decide whether the nation would have a king; and most importantly, the legalization of all political parties. The common front unites almost every anti-Franco party, from the Communists to four non-socialist Christian Democratic groups--all of whom will fall into Lisbon-style infighting if they can first dispose of Spain's sportsman-king...
Prince Juan Carlos de Borbon cannot establish a monarchy in Spain, Marichal said, because of the high percentage of liberals in the Spanish bureaucracy, a general desire to avoid another civil war, the implacable leftist sentiments of Basque and Catalan separatists, and the lack of strong monarchist sentiments...
...flatness of Miró's pictures begins in the formalized Romanesque murals he saw as a child in the museums and churches round Barcelona. His drawing, too, is in Catalan. It stems from art nouveau, the civic style of turn-of-the-century Barcelona, whose façades and courtyards Architect Antoni Gaudi (1852-1926) and his disciples encrusted with an exuberant riot of decorative line. In Gaudi's hands, art nouveau took on a tumid, visceral energy that no other European architect could manage...