Word: franco
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TAMING OF THE SHREW. Shakespeare possibly would not have recognized his comedy, but he certainly would have enjoyed watching Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in Franco Zeffirelli's lusty, sensuous production...
...both concept and practice-a sort of Catholic freemasonry. Spain's Diplomat-Journalist Ismael Herráiz charges that Opus Dei already "controls the organisms that control Spanish economic policy and is in a hurry to appropriate the instruments of social policy." In Spain, rival factions within the Franco regime as well as its illegal democratic opposition both consider Opus Dei the principal threat to their ambitions because of the large number of members in government...
Privy Council. Franco appears to have submitted practically all of Spain's economy to the hands of Opus Dei. Development Planning Minister Laureano López Rodó, Minister of Commerce Faustino Garcia-Monco, Minister of Industry Gregorio López Bravo, Central Bank Governor Mariano Navarro Rubio and Ambassador to the Common Market Alberto Ullástres are all members. Spain's sixth largest private bank (Banco Popular Espaňol) is owned almost solely by Opus Dei members, and they reportedly control 13 other banks and insurance companies, 16 real estate and construction firms...
Although the presence of so many high-powered Opus Dei men in the Franco government has led to charges that the organization is pro-Franco, others of its members are in outspoken opposition to the regime. Spanish police last year arrested two Opus Dei professors of the Universidad de Navarra for putting up anti-Franco posters, and Opus Dei students joined a nationwide strike for greater campus freedom. Civil Law Professor Amadeo de Fuenmayor, an Opus Deite, risked his neck by going on record with a scathing attack on Franco's much-publicized religious-liberty law, calling it inadequate...
Married. Infanta Maria del Pilar, 30, eldest child of Don Juan de Borbón y Battenberg, exiled Pretender to the Spanish throne, and sister of Juan Carlos, to whom Franco may one day give the royal nod; and Luis Gómez-Acebo, 32, handsome grandson of a Spanish marquis; in a fittingly royal wedding to which her father invited "any Spaniard who happens to be in Portugal" (some 3,000 responded); in Lisbon...