Word: francos
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Togetherness was possibly somewhat overdone on July 15, 1943, but Argentina's Diligenti quintuplets celebrated their coming of age nicely scattered about the globe. Maria Cristina Diligenti was in Rome, where she works as a secretary. Carlos and Franco, students in British Columbia, put in a full day's work (though their father is a millionaire industrialist) at their summer jobs as $3.19-an-hour Vancouver longshoremen. Back home in Buenos Aires, Marfa Ester and Maria Fernanda are both married, and have three children, two girls and a boy, between them. But all five sent happy birthday besos...
Born. To María del Carmen Franco y Polo, 37, only child of Spain's Generalissimo Franco; and Cristóbal Martínez Bordiu Ortega y Bascarán, 41, Marqués de Villaverde: their seventh child, fifth daughter; in Madrid...
Thus Poet W. H. Auden once darkly described Spain, but today the "arid square" of more than 30 million people is growing ever closer to the rest of Europe. Franco long ago took economic power away from the old Falangists who helped him win the civil war. Now El Caudillo, who fancies himself an economist and contributes occasional articles to Madrid newspapers under the pen name "Hispanicus," is steadily giving more authority to a corps of knowledgeable and enthusiastic technicians. The young economists have been raising both living standards and future hopes...
Last week that fact was acknowledged by the Common Market. Because of longstanding political hostility to Dictator Franco, the Six steadfastly refuse to grant Spain the membership he badly wants. But meeting in Brussels, the Market ministers agreed to hold "exploratory talks" on joint economic problems. Spaniards, who had feared a complete turndown and their regime's retreat to isolation, were jubilant...
...Franco has relaxed regulations on foreign capital, now allows outside companies to control Spanish firms and remit their profits and dividends. Such firms as Leyland Motors, John Deere and Parke Davis have come in. Foreigners can now own Spanish stocks, have bought $200 million worth of them...