Word: marias
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...come across posters announcing lectures on "Feminism and Anarchism," "Communism: A Dying Business," "Portugese Revolutionary Speaks!" and "Cyprus and Greece," tacked to the walls of Central Square bars. The nicest name in Central Square belongs to a bar, too: the Paradise Cafe; it reminds me of a song Maria Muldaur might sing...
...Juan Carlos will ultimately choose his own Premier. By replacing aging and unreconstructed rightists on the council, Juan Carlos could in effect select his own candidate ahead of time. Among the leading possibilities are Manuel Fraga Iribarne, 53, a center rightist and former Minister of Tourism; and José Maria de Areilza, Count of Mortrico, 65, a monarchist and former ambassador to Washington...
Most of the refugees were Portuguese dirt farmers who went to Africa looking for a better life than the miserable existence offered by the rocky slopes of northern Portugal. Few got rich. About 10% are black or of mixed blood. Last week Maria da Silva Caldeira, 48, a widow who had been a washerwoman in Angola, sat disconsolately in a hangar surrounded by her ten children. "I did not have an easy time in Angola, but this is worse," she said. "They have spoiled our lives...
...took the bluest of Europe's royal blood to produce Prince Juan Carlos Victor Maria de Borbón y Borbón. Tall (6 ft. 2 in.), curly-haired and athletically handsome, Juan Carlos is the grandson of Spain's last ruling King, Alfonso XIII, as well as a great-great-grandson of Britain's Queen Victoria and a direct descendant of France's Bourbon monarchs. Despite his lineage, however, the Prince is less the product of royalty than the creation of a commoner. Under the close surveillance and tutelage of Franco since...
Franco's precautions paid off. Juan Carlos was a serious, somewhat plodding student; he became fluent in five languages and conversant in two others. After a brief period of squiring Italy's high-living Princess Maria Gabriella, he settled down at 24 with a bride more suitable to his naturally subdued and by now almost melancholy temperament: Princess Sophia of Greece, a Girl Scout chief captain, amateur archaeologist and pediatric nurse. With their three children-Elena, 11, Cristina, 10, and Felipe, 7-the royal couple now live at state expense in the 20-room Zarzuela Palace, a modern...