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Miniskirts on the Gran Via? Bikinis on the beaches? Student protests in the universities? An increasingly outspoken press? To many Spaniards, these outward and visible evidences of an inward and spiritual change in the nation's life came as welcome relief from the all-pervasive greyness that had characterized the rule of Generalissimo Francisco Franco ever since he was named Chief of State in 1939. The five-year experiment with liberalization, however, had horrified the archconservative military, and they made little secret of their concern. Two weeks ago, alarmed by student violence in Madrid and Barcelona, Franco declared...
...DONALD BROOKS, of the four designers, is the most outspoken and persistent in his criticism of Pat Nixon's current mode. "Maybe now that she has arrived," he says, "she can achieve a feeling of calm and contentment. She can stop considering herself in terms of the average and create her own style. Her little pink coat is too pedestrian an approach. Fluff just isn't becoming on her. She needs an overhauling...
...expected, however, that the march will have little effect and that Volpe will order construction on the highway very soon after taking office. Volpe has been an opponent of the second hearing proposal for a long time and an outspoken supporter of the Brookline-Elm Street route for the Inner Belt...
...able to build himself a Scottish estate in Onarga, Ill., complete with 85,000 imported trees, where he entertained the likes of General Grant and Commodore Vanderbilt. Yet as America progressed beyond the crude improvisations of frontier justice, Pinkerton gradually fitted less and less serviceably into his society. An outspoken admirer of vigilante tactics, he became a willing, over-brutal tool of mine owners and steel bosses in the terrorism that marked the early attempts to pioneer workers' rights...
...House, he has been on the Appropriations Subcommittee, dealing with Defense, and has become an expert in the field. He knows the department's budget thoroughly, is acquainted with many military leaders, and has an intimate knowledge of Pentagon practices and politics. Laird was also an outspoken critic of McNamara on a number of is sues, berating him, as did other conservatives on Capitol Hill, for ignoring the professional judgment of the military chiefs and for failing to procure more new weapons systems...