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...procession of Cabinet ministers, generals, leaders of the Movimiento National (the sole political party allowed), Roman Catholic churchmen and a few Latin American ambassadors arrived to inquire about Franco's health. Among the callers were exiled King Leka of Albania and Nicolas Franco, 37, the dictator's nephew. Young Franco later told TIME Correspondent Gavin Scott that he was hardly surprised by his uncle's durability. His own father, Franco's 85-year-old brother, suffered a similar illness four years ago and had been kept alive by drugs and machines. "Today," Nicolas said, "my father...
...plot, The Realms of Gold offers little more than the comical attempts of Frances and her professor-lover to reunite after an ill-conceived breakup. The tragedies in the book happen to others. A reclusive old relative of Frances' starves to death in a Midlands cottage; a nephew decides to leave the world he cannot take-and kills his infant daughter as well. Frances does not share this fatal pessimism. But she earnestly wants to know why she has been spared...
...winter afternoon in 1969, a woman took her 16-year-old blind nephew to an ice rink in Philadelphia. The teenager surprised everyone by doing a competent job of staying on his feet. The rink's manager gave him a pair of skates and offered to let him use the rink regularly...
...nephew lost Faith when he realized that President Ford appointed Vice President Rockefeller, who gave Secretary of State Kissinger to former President Nixon who appointed President Ford who pardoned former President Nixon. My nephew says that that's not participatory democracy. But then he's precocious...
President Ford is right. This loss of Faith really is a big problem. So far everyone from the U.S. Army to Mao Tse-tung to my nephew seems to be implicated in losing Faith. No wonder Dr. Kissinger is to upset. Not even William Colby can assassinate all those people...