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Weakest leg of the three-legged stool (army, church & Falange) which supports General Franco in power is the Falange. Thirteen years of political stock-jobbery have riddled the Falange like a colander. Recently, seeking American aid, Franco has played down the role of the party that was once his pride...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Out of Mothballs | 10/27/1952 | See Source »

Back to the Body. The final portion of the show spans the past 15 years, and there Ritchie finds his back-to-the-body trend. There are two recent statues by old Cubist Pablo Picasso. One is a touching figure of a Shepherd Holding a Lamb, the other a small...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Track Through the Jungle? | 10/27/1952 | See Source »

Among his fanciest projects: the million-dollar Wichita Falls palace of Texas Oilman Charles McGaha (built in collaboration with Architect Allen Siple), which includes a horseshoe-shaped swimming pool, Lucite-legged chairs, hand-painted draperies, and a radio-controlled main gate;* and Movie Producer William Perlberg's cozier ($250...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Rich Man's Architect | 8/18/1952 | See Source »

In a bare mountainside building in the Salem* district of the Indian state of Madras, 35 Indian ascetics live and pray together. In the tradition of the Indian sanyasis (holy men), they wear coarse cotton robes dyed a bright saffron. At mealtimes they eat a strict vegetarian diet of tapioca...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Benedict's Sanyasis | 7/28/1952 | See Source »

For six lonely years, a long-legged lamppost of a man who lives in an unpretentious country manor 125 miles southeast of Paris has been watching and waiting for the jerry-built Fourth Republic to collapse at his feet, as he always said it would. General Charles de Gaulle, at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Divided Rally | 7/14/1952 | See Source »

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