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...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's hand-picked successor, Prince...
...cars are not turning off would-be buyers to anything like the extent that price boosts of about $450 on the '75s did twelve months ago. Last fall slumping sales at the start of the 1975-model run gave an early signal that what had been a mild recession was turning into a nosedive; this year climbing sales at the start of the new auto model-year could be a sign that recovery is gaining more strength than was foreseen...
...Just about anyone in Government can acquire personal tax information," protested Minnesota Senator Walter Mondale. "The returns can be requested and used for illegal purposes." The mild-mannered Alexander agreed, although he claimed that the Internal Revenue Code makes IRS acquiescence in such requests almost mandatory. In actual fact, the code says only that IRS "may" supply such information; it need not do so. With some sympathy, Mondale asked: "How do you say no to a President?" Replied Alexander: "With extreme difficulty and some trepidation...
Last weekend they served evidence of this mild return to respectability by remaining in the game with a strong Princeton team until the third quarter. The Lions finally succumbed by a 27-7 margin, but in so doing, caused more than one pair of eyebrows to raise...
...rule on drug use is mild compared to the one against not showing your bursars card to any University official who demands it (a rule intended to make identifying rowdy demonstrators as easy as passing a hat for ID cards). The University "discourages" drug use, it does not prohibit it. Attempts to enforce a stricter rule on drugs--like trying to enforce parietal regulations--would meet unmanageable defiance...