Word: madrid
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Major stories can be elusive, deceptive, difficult to trace. So it seemed last week as TIME'S staff set to work examining the situation in Spain for our story in this issue. Early in the week Madrid Bureau Chief Gavin Scott alerted TIME editors in New York that Generalissimo Francisco Franco had suffered a mild heart attack during a Cabinet meeting. By the time government officials had reluctantly acknowledged Scott's report, he was already busy trying to penetrate the secrecy that enshrouds Franco. He later joined Photographer Eddie Adams for an exclusive photo session with the Generalissimo...
...files from Madrid went to Associate Editor Burton Pines, a seven-year veteran of TIME'S news bureaus, who wrote the story in New York. Reporter-Researcher Sara Medina spent most of her week poring over histories, TIME files and clippings going back to pre-Civil War days. Meanwhile, Staff Writer Le Anne Schreiber prepared a profile of Heir Apparent Juan Carlos...
Franco's final crisis came quickly and unexpectedly. A month ago Franco-with Juan Carlos at his side-had appeared on the Royal Palace balcony to accept the homage of a mass rally in Madrid's Plaza de Oriente and he seemed vigorous for a man of his years (TIME, Oct. 13). Then, in the midst of an Oct. 17 Cabinet meeting at El Pardo Palace, his official residence outside Madrid, he announced that he was feeling queasy and excused himself from the room. The next morning Spain was swept by rumors about the state of his health...
Despite these sanguine bulletins, Franco's condition was deteriorating. Thursday night, the eleven physicians attending him announced that he had suffered a relapse and "early signs of cardiac insufficiency had appeared." As this news spread, bars and restaurants in Madrid began closing early; a few groups of youths roamed the capital's streets mournfully chanting, "Franco. Franco. Franco...
Consuming Fantasy. Pushing Isabelita aside without actually deposing her has become a consuming fantasy of many politicians. One scenario that is talked about has her asking for another leave, this time to embark on a foreign trip that would take her to the United Nations, Geneva, Rome and, finally, Madrid, where she would complete her "recovery" in the suburban quinta where she and Juan Perón lived for most of his 18-year exile...