Word: manuel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Manuel Fraga Iribarne, 40, Minister of Information, who is expected to ease Spain's press censorship through the completion of a long-delayed and less restrictive new press law. He replaces narrow-minded Gabriel Arias Salgado, 58, who has rigidly suppressed the news ever since the Civil War and has regarded all writers and intellectuals with suspicion...
...last 20 years of his life, Spanish Composer Manuel de Falla (1876-1946) seemed to have deserted music. In Granada, and later in Argentina, he passed his time in apparently unproductive solitude. But Falla never stopped working, and the years of silence were filled with a dream-"to glorify the immortality of Spain through music." Last week, at Milan's La Scala, the grand dream came to life at the premiere of Falla's four-hour-long scenic cantata La Atlantida...
...history and then cast their votes for a new President from among three leading candidates: Victor Raul Haya de la Torre, 67, founder of the longoutlawed, Marxist-turned-moderate APRA Party; Fernando Belaunde Terry, 49, a wellborn, highly nationalistic architect who narrowly lost the 1956 presidential elections; and Manuel Odria, 64, Dictator-President of Peru from 1950 to 1956, who is remembered for both his strong arm and liberal public works...
...Manolo will be on in a few minutes." Haya's silver-haired vice-presidential candidate. Manuel Seoane, soon appeared to deny that Belaunde-or anyone else-could claim victory so soon...
...Chairman Fountain told it, Manuel would be a "serious handicap" to the investigation. Manuel retorted that "this investigation is being distorted-and the truth suppressed-either because of shoddy preparation or a willingness to cover up." The report, he said, was not legally classified. It was stamped " 'administratively confidential,' which meant that it contained politically embarrassing material that the Department of Agriculture wanted to keep from the public." Manuel charged that the subcommittee had tried to keep the name of Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson out of the public record. An Agriculture Department official, said Manuel, told...