Word: francos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most Commonwealth leaders had come to London hoping to force Brit ish Prime Minister Harold Wilson to send troops to invade Rhodesia - or at the very least call for a full-scale eco nomic and diplomatic blockade (such as the U.N. unsuccessfully tried against Franco's Spain after World...
...Burgess and Maclean, a Philby or Vassall, go undetected for years, but is eager to winkle out a man of the people of leftist leanings who just happens to handle sensitive hardware. He is a noble, rugged, beer-drinking type who had fought against Hitler and Franco, and his consort is a very nice schoolteacher married to someone else. The jilted husband sets Security on the coup!e. It is a setup calculated to have the bleachers cheering as the pro-Communist pair outwit the villainous security men. The proletarian hero investigates the investigators and exposes his three persecutors...
...NEWS SPECIAL (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Eric Sevareid attempts to explain the Franco-American love-hate relationship from Benjamin Franklin's time to, as he calls it, "the present irritation." "Our Friends, the French" will be represented by four Frenchmen of strong opinions: Jean-Claude Servan-Schreiber, general director of Les Echos, a pro-De Gaulle paper; his cousin Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, general director of L'Express, an anti-De Gaulle magazine; Pierre Gallois, retired air force general and chief exponent of France's independent nuclear striking force; and Jacques Rueff, gold-standard devotee...
Absent Brother. There will be nothing inconspicuous about the event starting at 11 a.m. Saturday, when the National Shrine's 56-bell carillon thunders into a window-rattling medley of works by Handel, Bach, Purcell and a new composition by Dutch-born Johan Franco. During the hour-long tintinnabulation, the principals and their guests will arrive under the unblinking scrutiny of TV. Inside-mercifully beyond reach of electronic peeping-the company and a pool of newsmen will see the father of the bride decked out in the formal regalia, morning coat and striped trousers, that he refused...
...editorial extolling the virtues of the liberal monarchies of Great Britain, Belgium and The Netherlands that landed A.B.C. in the soup. Instead of following the official attitude that a post-Franco "institutions" of the monarch must Franco regime, maintain the the paper praised Don Juan de Borbón y Battenberg, chief pretender to the throne, for promoting "a European monarchy, a democratic monarchy, a popular monarchy, a monarchy for all." Such thoughts are apparently still heresy in Franco's liberalized Spain...