Word: juan
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...choices have an air of impermanence about them. Juan Carlos was tapped by Franco mainly because he will be a more docile King than his father, Don Juan, 59, would be. Even so, the heir apparent is liberal enough so that some conservatives within Franco's National Movement, or ruling party, are already considering an alternative. He is Don Alfonso de Borbón y Dampierre, 36, who has the additional advantage of being Franco's grandson by marriage and the father of the Leader's only great-grandchild. Two weeks ago to mark the christening...
...countrymen for the upheaval that could follow more than three decades of one-man rule. Six years ago, to be sure, he did draw up a "law of succession." Under that law and codicils added to it last July, el Caudillo will be succeeded by two men. Prince Juan Carlos de Borbón y Borbón, 34, grandson of Alfonso XIII, the last Spanish monarch, will be crowned King and chief of state. The head of government will be Vice Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco, 69, a Franco crony...
...ended. The fugitive Nazi finally reached Argentina in 1948 through the assistance of Eva Perón, who used contacts in the Vatican to get him a passport issued under the ironical Jewish name of Eliezer Goldstein. For making Bormann feel at home in Argentina, Farago claimed, Dictator Juan Perón extracted from Bormann's booty a ransom of nearly $200 million...
...impossible dream of Juan Perón seemed no longer quite so impossible. Shaking off the effects of a damp homecoming two weeks ago after 17 years in exile, the onetime Argentine dictator, now 77, last week was adroitly bartering among the country's multitudinous political parties and keeping everyone guessing about his intentions. Would he find a way to unite the civilian opposition to Argentina's military government, and then run for the presidency in the elections scheduled for March 11? Perón was typically Delphic, carefully sidestepping the question at a press conference that...
...sicker when young, the brighter when grown? It seems an unlikely proposition, but Psychologist Robert Helmreich of the University of Texas at Austin and Psychiatrist William Prescott of the U.S. Public Health Service in San Juan, P.R., argue that it is true. The Teddy Roosevelt effect, Helmreich calls it, after the President who emerged from a sickly childhood into an adulthood of endeavor and accomplishment...