Word: francos
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...shadowy figure of Juan March has floated across the face of Europe for more than half a century, bringing public officials low, underwriting dictators, helping to finance two world wars (on both sides), and buying himself virtual immunity from the law. With characteristic foresight, March bankrolled Dictator Francisco Franco's Spanish Civil War campaign. Today, still Franco's creditor and a powerful voice in Spanish affairs, he boasts a personal fortune that is said to match the U.S.'s entire foreign aid program to Spain - a matter of $1 billion. "I'm so rich," Juan March...
...hall "in the name of justice and right." Then, by a vote of 79-2, the Assembly voted to put Angola on the docket. France and Britain were among the eight who abstained. The U.S. reaffirmed its earlier stand, voted with the majority. Portugal's two lonesome defenders: Franco Spain and South Africa...
...House Or and Chorus conducted by Leinsdorf. RCA Victor LM ndot is Puccini's best and yet frustrating opera. "Best," be of the scope of its profound and dramatic characterize "Frustrating," because the touchstone, its final duet, not written by Puccini but one instead by a mediocre of his, Franco Alfano...
...fashionable ski resort near the Swiss border. Raymond rented a picturesque eleven-room chalet, and they all moved in. Along with them was Medical Student Jean-Simon Rotman. who once lived in the same rooming house as Raymond. He. too. soon found a girl: a Franco-Japanese stripper named Mitsouko. The three couples lived it up in bar and bistro. When Ingelise Bodin was chosen "Miss Courcheval" at a nearby resort, they celebrated with a restaurant party. Raymond was amused to discover that among fellow vacationers at Mégéve were little Eric and his parents. They frequently...
...program is augmented by a fatuous short, Dances in Spain. High-decibel castanets, surrealist sets with real tinsel trees, effeminate gypsies chasing Tinkerbellesque points of light--these, one is led to conclude, are the cultural outpourings of Franco Spain. Uninspired photography alternates with extraneous quotations by Garcia Lorca. An unfortunate program--but don't miss the music between the showings. The 1812 Overture has gone forever; and the Brattle's all new Altec-Lansing Hi-Fidelity Sound System is devoted to reproducing the brass canzonas of Giovanni Gabrieli. They're restful and reassuring...