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...record the event as were representatives of the national press. Marshalls deliberately delayed the arrest four days to make the event coincide with the Apollo moonshot last July. Now, shortly after the first anniversary of the arrest, "Carry It On" [the film] has been completed by UPA... of DEI... whose major income source is NASA. So NASA is now publicizing an event they once inadvertently helped to cover up. Crazy business...
...Nuns originated when Moore picked up a shell on the beach at Forte dei Marmi. "I thought it would be nice to carve, and I made one version, then another," says Moore. "After everything was finished, the two sculptures reminded me of nuns' veils. In Italy nuns always go around in pairs, and that's why I gave them that name." Bust of a Girl, though highly abstract, suggests a perky little tomboy with a hat pulled down over her eyes. "They're both little bits of fantasy," he says...
...When I was a young sculptor nine out of every ten pieces I did were in wood or stone. I thought that a stone carver was superior to a modeler." In recent years Moore has increasingly indulged himself in carving. Since 1965, he has spent his summers at Forte dei Marmi near the famous Carrara marble quarries. He sometimes spends whole days tramping over the quarries to find the right piece of stone. "I like the actual activity of carving. With a hammer and chisel in hand, my worries go, and I begin to whistle and sing without knowing...
...Luis Carrero Blanco, who is Vice President and one of the few men Franco really trusts. He is also the probable choice for Premier under a restored monarchy. El Caudillo apparently listened when Carrero Blanco and López Rodó pointed out to him that the competent Opus Dei technocrats would do less boat-rocking than the Falangists. As a result, technocrats got key posts in the new Cabinet announced last week. Gregorio López Bravo, 45, the former Minister of Industry, was promoted to Foreign Minister. Technocrats also took over the finance, commerce, industry, housing, information...
Falangists greeted the appointments angrily. Shouting "Falange, si. Opus Dei, no!", they demonstrated through Madrid's streets last week. Other Spaniards pointed out that the appointments by no means indicate a shift to a less dictatorial Spain. Said one Madrileňo, who belongs to the order himself: "This means an economic opening up to Europe, but it does not necessarily mean liberalism at home. There is not one man on the list you could call even moderately left...