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...speech José Ortega y Gasset made that night was on an academic subject-Arnold J. Toynbee's Study of History (TIME, March 17, 1947). But all over Madrid last week, it was the talk of the coffeehouses. It had been twelve years since Spain's most celebrated living philosopher had gone into voluntary exile when Franco came to power. Now, with Franco's permission, he was back lecturing again. He had been told to stick to cultural subjects, but Ortega seemed to have other plans. He had chosen to lecture on Toynbee merely "to loosen...
...Mexicans, Gaona is more than that. He is the dark-skinned Indian boy who 41 years ago brought even haughty Spaniards roaring to their feet when he fought on the same program with the great Juan Belmonte and José ("Joselito") Gómez y Ortega. Race-proud Spaniards called him El Indio, made him fight harder than the others for the reward of ears and tail...
Trujillo understood just how to deal with this sort of business. Yellow-eyed Julio Ortega Frier, his Washington Ambassador, broadcast that "3,000 Communist revolutionaries" were training in eastern Cuba, fixing to invade Trujilloland. Five days later he reported that 1,000 of them had already set sail in two landing barges and a corvette. But nothing happened...
...Trujillo scotched the plot and then, in the style of Spain's Dictator Franco, magnified the Communist role beyond all reality? Had the revolutionaries, knocked off balance by Ortega's premature publicity, dropped their plan, or just deferred it? Last week the U.S. press front-paged reports that seven fighter planes bought from U.S. Army surplus had taken off from a Florida airfield, heading south. Trujillo's apprehensive plane patrols still scanned offshore waters and soldiers still manned the Dominican beaches...
Bermúdez' extraordinary action went back to one day last December, when, hot-tempered Union Boss Jorge Ortega tossed one of his lightning strikes at the new Alemán Government. Unlike its predecessors, the Alemán Government struck right back. Soldiers rode gas trucks, broke the strike. A more compliant leader took Ortega's place. But Pemex was still cluttered with an accumulation of political hacks dating far back to other administrations. Antonio Bermúdez, working 12 to 14 hours daily, laid careful plans. Last week, with President Alemán's support...