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...because of ideological considerations, but because so major an issue had not been permitted enough discussion. They tried "Stalinist methods to democratize the party," grumbled one P.S.U.C. stalwart. In Asturias, 113 of 500 provincial delegates walked out of their conference, complaining about stifled minority rights, while in Málaga, some 200 dissidents railed against "lack of internal democracy." In Madrid, there were charges that some of the delegates who would vote on Thesis XV had been hand-picked by the leadership...
Died. Sir Stanley Baker, 48, Welsh-born character actor who won fame as a cinema villain; of heart and lung disease; in Málaga, Spain. Baker was ready to follow his father into the coal mines when a movie producer spied him in a school play and offered him a screen test. Signed to his first big film contract in 1956, Baker played in such hit action movies as The Guns of Navarone (1961), Sodom and Gomorrah (1963) and Innocent Bystanders...
Harvard's junior varsity crew swept to an easy victory Saturday to bring home the Ladies Challenge Cup from the historic Royal Henley Regatta, at Henley, England. The J.V.s led all the way down the course defeating the defending trophy holders from the Netherlands, Laga Delftsche, by 2 3/4 lengths...
...years stretched out in a monotony of sameness, there was always the fear of detection. With his father now dead, Cortés realized that each pack of cigarettes, each shirt his wife bought could give them away. Juliana became a peddler and would go down to Málaga to sell Mijas' hemp products and to buy miscellaneous goods and clothes for resale in Mijas, so that an extra shirt or trousers caused no comment. In fact, when local searches for Cortés failed, the police believed that he was hiding out in Málaga...
...seems strangely unaffected by both the warm abrazos of old friends who had thought him dead, and by the shiny new skyscrapers of Málaga, the neon lights and the blaring sock-it-to-'em jukeboxes. What he likes best of all is to slip off the uncomfortable shoes as he takes the sun in the tiny inner patio prohibited to him for so many years. Sitting there, at peace with himself and the world, Cortés says: "At last, for me, the war is over...