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Banker Bernardez had been the head of the Avanzadilla brain trust, and a shrewd political adviser to Leader Luisa Maria, 34, the handsome, impetuous Duchess of Valencia. Cautious and levelheaded, the old man kept the organization running in spite of its hotheads. "I have ten children of my own," he would say, his blue eyes twinkling, "so I can easily manage a hundred more...
...Patrician Rebel. When the duchess heard of Bernardez' arrest, she still had time to flee. Instead, she chose to stay. When she was nine and a convent student, Luisa Maria had upset a plate of bean soup in protest against the quality of convent food. Reprimanded, she upset the inkwell on the mother superior's desk. Last week, still a rebel, the duchess made the rounds of Madrid's foreign embassies and newsmen, hoping that publicity would help her arrested friends...
...curls flying, she motored to the Associated Press office near the Puerta de Alcala. When her black Cadillac convertible (with ducal escutcheon enameled on its door) halted, a taxi pulled up just behind. From it hurried two men in the typical trench coats of the secret police. They blocked Luisa Maria's way. "Duchess," one of them said, "you must come along with us. The chief of police wants to have a talk with you at once...
...Dona Luisa Maria Narvaez y Macias, Perez de Guzman el Bueno y Ramirez de Arellano, Marquesa de Cartago, Condesa de Canada Alta, Vizcondesa Aliatar and Duquesa de Valencia, had just spent nine months in the clink. Last week she sat, lithe and beautiful, in the prisoner's dock, her astrakhan coat open wide to reveal the soft drape of a smart beige gown and a length of shapely leg. From time to time as the prosecutor read the indictment, her long, blood-red fingernails fondled a corsage of tea roses at her shoulder as she cast a slow smile...
...Blue Suit Again. By midweek, the city fathers called in strikebreakers. They, too, encountered trouble. Idling strikers pointed scornfully at the newcomers' clumsy technique. Pretty, smartly dressed Communist Deputy Maria Luisa Cinciari-Rodano led 15 strikers' wives into battle against a detachment of volunteer garbage collectors. With resounding cries of "traitors!" and "robbers of bread!", Signora Rodano charged the unhappy scavengers...