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SPAIN Beyond Franco A cheering crowd of 300,000 Spaniards crushed into Madrid's Plaza de Oriente in front of the imposing 18th century Royal Palace last week and raised a stiff-armed fascist salute to the tiny, frail man of 78 on the palace balcony. The occasion was the 35th anniversary of. Generalissimo Francisco Franco's formation of the Insurgent government in 1936. Addressing the throng with tears in his eyes, the durable dictator promised in a barely audible voice that he would continue to rule "as long as God gives me life and a clear mind...
Each sacrifice that was made, each scar, each moment of defiance, no matter how brief or insignificant it seemed, mattered. That was what Dick Hyland tried to say in his writing. It mattered because people in Vietnam and China and Czechoslovakia and South Africa who were of the same frail flesh and blood as us, and wanted the same things we did, were fighting hard every day. They faced an array of power we could only try to imagine. They fought with a courage and a belief in themselves that was distinct from anything we had ever known. They were...
...aboard," comes the word over the cab loudspeaker. Engineer eases the throttle open, and his huge diesel units, totaling more 10,000 h.p., growl into action. They are pulling nine cars, mostly mail loaded in truck trailers carried on 85-ft. flatcars. From the cab track seems too frail and narrow to support 1,500 tons of locomotive and load. After the train leaves the Corwith yards, the speedometer needle creeps up slowly through the flat, industrial along the Des Plaines River. Finally are thundering along at 79 m.p.h., the top speed allowed this train. There a loud beeping sound...
...performer, Carole has what might be charitably called a low musical profile. At a recent Carnegie Hall concert, she came out in an unpretentious print dress and sat down at the piano, alone on the stage and looking somewhat frail and plaintive. All that changed in seconds as she began thumping out a mesmerizing uh-uh, UH-UH, uh-uh, UH-UH bass rhythm, and then began to wail...
...tennis greats; in Lynchburg, Va. Credited with cracking the color line on public courts and in tournaments, Johnson took a teen-ager from Harlem named Althea Gibson under his wing in 1947 and prepared her for two Wimbledon and two Forest Hills titles. Six years later he befriended a frail ten-year-old named Arthur Ashe Jr. "What made me maddest," Johnson once commented, "was this idea that colored athletes . . . couldn't learn stamina or finesse...