Word: franco
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...work of Columbia Producers Andrew Kazdin and Thomas Shepard, Everything is actually something less than that, a Franco-Spanish program including Chabrier's España, Ravel's Bolero, a mini-suite from Bizet's Carmen and the Malagueña of Ernesto Lecuona (only Latin in the group). Infinitely superior in sound quality and Moog mastery to the same company's alltime classical bestseller Switched-On Bach, Everything is not to be confused with the originals, nor is it to be condemned for its license. Harmless fun and easy to take, it asks the question...
Juan Carlos has insisted all along that he would prefer to see his father Don Juan crowned. Franco, however, would not accept Don Juan because of his liberal political and social views and his public attacks on the Franco regime. So Juan Carlos accepted the throne. "It is not a question of Don Juan or Juan Carlos," he told his father, "but whether the monarchy would ever be restored...
Rumors began circulating several weeks ago, when Foreign Minister Gregorio Lopez Bravo arrived in San Sebastian, Spain's summer capital. Generalissimo Francisco Franco, Chief of State, was vacationing on his yacht at Vigo and had summoned Lopez Bravo to discuss a restoration of the monarchy after a lapse of 40 years. The step is part of Franco's deliberate attempt to relinquish gradually his absolute powers. In July 1969, as the first move in that direction, the Caudillo named Juan Carlos to be Prince of Spain. Next, Franco overhauled the Spanish Cabinet, substituting younger, more moderate personalities...
Twilight Zone. Franco apparently intends to preside over the coronation and then retire to private life. At 78, he is in full possession of his faculties, but he insists privately that he does not want to go out as did his neighbor in Portugal, Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, who suffered a stroke and lived his last two years in a twilight zone of helpless incomprehension. More important, Franco, a lifelong monarchist, knows that in Spain there is no great affection for the crown. He also knows that many of his associates, including his probable choice for Prime Minister, Vice President...
...When World War I came, the French were ready to fight the Franco-Prussian War of the 1870s. When World War II began, the Allies were ready to fight World War I. It is heartening to know, from the arguments of President Nixon and Secretary of State Rogers justifying the present level of U.S. troop strength in Europe [June 14], that we are ready for World War II if it should break out. STEVEN KOENIG Van Nuys, Calif...