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Last week, at 70, Juan March (rhymes with park) staged one of the most audacious strokes of his audacious career. He snatched Spain's biggest public utility, the $250 million Ebro Irrigation & Power Co., Ltd., away from an international electrical combine run by a U.S. businessman and partly financed by U.S. and British investors...
Mystery Man. To grab Ebro, Juan March had to outwit and outfight a foe as powerful, mysterious and secretive as himself: Dannie N. (for Nusbaum) Heineman, who, at 78, looks startlingly like the late J. P. Morgan, has some of Morgan's mania for collecting (he owns a collection of original manuscripts of De Maupassant, Mozart and Goethe...
...born 30-odd years ago in the Spanish town of Albacete. He married young, went to Madrid and studied to be a schoolteacher. Too poor to finish his courses, he became a construction worker, unionist, extreme leftist. In the Civil War, he fought on the Ebro, had a big chunk shot out of his back. He went to Mexico, worked for the Spanish Republican exiles. After World War II, he slipped back into Spain, became a key Communist organizer...
...filtered through the lines and joined a Partisan band under the command of 32-year-old Kosta Nagy. Nagy was not an amateur. As commander of a Croat machine-gun battalion of Republican Spain's International Brigade, Nagy had made a name by holding a position on the Ebro for weeks in spite of persistent attacks by Fascist units far better equipped...
...Gaul and South Germany in the 5th Century; and of Pepin the Young and his bastard son Charles Martel, statesmen rather than warlords, who founded the Carolingian Dynasty, the greatest ever to rule Germany. And of Charles the Great Carolingian, whose Empire stretched from the Elbe to the Ebro...