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The capital's metropolitan area now is populated by an estimated 12 million souls-one-fifth of the nation-and more people flock to it every day. At least 500,000 campesinos arrive each year looking for work, then settle into makeshift hovels only marginally better than the villages...
Last week's decision by the Cortes was the most significant victory yet in the campaign by King Juan Carlos and Premier Adolfo Suárez to move Spain out of the Franco era toward democratic rule. Juan Carlos and the government could have bypassed the conservative Cortes and...
Miguel Primo de Rivera, nephew of the founder of the blue-shirted Falange and a man with good Franquista credentials, made the initial defense of the political reform bill in the Cortes. "We are conscious of the fact," said Primo de Rivera, "that we must move from a personal regime...
Austerity Measures. Suárez's clever stage-managing of the reform bill was fresh evidence that his government is navigating with some confidence down the political middle. Shortly before the Cortes vote, the left made itself felt when Spain's illegal but officially tolerated trade-union blocs...
NATIONAL STUDENT MARKETING CORP. Record high stock price (1969): $74. Low (1972): 88?. Last week: $1.25. NSM mesmerized Wall Street with its dazzle, its ideas for selling a variety of products to young adults (mostly college students), its youthful executives who smiled wholesomely from the company's glossy annual...