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...Madrid, wellborn Doña Fabiola de Mora y Aragón, 32, is the girl who couldn't catch a man. Her three brothers and three sisters had long since married. Fabiola has large, dark brown eyes and is an attractive young woman, though no raving beauty. Educated in Paris, she speaks perfect English and French and German, as well as Spanish, swims well and plays adequate tennis. Instead of attending university; she took nurse's training in military hospitals in San Sebastian and Madrid. In her spare time, Fabiola designed Christmas cards and published a children...
Last week Fabiola let her family in on a secret, flew to Paris with her mother, and went on to Belgium. At week's end in Brussels, the secret was revealed to the world when King Baudouin announced his engagement to Fabiola de Mora. Madrid society gasped. "Astounding!" cried one count in clipped accents and added, "Are you absolutely sure it's Fabiola?" One of her friends said loyally, "She is very devout, very Spanish, just what foreigners think most Spanish girls are like-not like the new generation." Generalissimo Franco wired King Baudouin his congratulations...
...passport on her own, could not buy, sell or manage property without the consent of her husband or father. She could not legally leave home until she was 30 (unless married), could not vote or practice law or medicine. As late as 1925, Archbishop José Mora y del Rio objected to feminine wage earning as a "North American custom...
...poor farmers from the hills, stand and stare up hungrily at the land they hope to own through Fidel Castro's agrarian reform. They bring contributions to the Agrarian Reform Institute, everything from pennies to axheads to old barbed wire. "I am in accord with Fidel." says Juan Mora, who owns 17 acres, a thatched hut, a cow and a pig. "I am going to register for more land." Chimes in Bootblack Ruiz Marino Arganza, 16: "Everybody for Fidel...
Communist Mora came home from Havana. Denouncing Figueres as "a servant of Yankee imperialism," Mora praised Castro as a "man of profound culture and conspicuous talent, a true revolutionary." In Venezuela, President Betancourt's Acción Democrática party pointedly issued a statement praising Figueres...