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...sense, General Francisco Franco has brought the trouble on himself by seeking in recent months to relax the tight rein that his regime had for decades imposed on Spain. Franco recently promulgated a new constitution that will ultimately bring the country at least a semblance of parliamentary democracy, also decreed that strikes were no longer illegal provided that they were called exclusively for economic reasons. Taking him at his word, Spanish workers have struck a number of times for higher wages to offset Spain's rising cost of living. But politics also clearly played a role in last week...
...country into shape, Gestido will have the power to designate certain legislation as "emergency" and therefore automatic law unless Congress acts within a given period. If Congress rejects the new legislation, Gestido can simply dissolve it and rule by decree until new congressional elections are held. As a rein on him, major presidential decisions must be ratified by his eleven-man Council of Ministers. Whatever those decisions may be, they will entail plenty of belt tightening. "I will simply say that we are poor," said Gestido, "and that the poor should live as such. If in some future days, through...
...found in the middle-aged male, Dr. Greenson suggested, there are several reasons: "After 25 years of marriage, his sexual practices tend to become stereotyped and routinized. There are no more surprises. As a consequence of his insecurity about his masculinity, the American male is inhibited in giving full rein to his sexual fantasies. Another complicating circumstance is the typical middle-aged man's notion that at his time of life his body has to be preserved from any undue stress and strain. He may play 36 holes of golf and cards afterward, but at night, in bed with...
Such cards emerge from brainstorming sessions that a special staff of American Greetings' artists and editors hold at their offices in a onetime airplane plant in Cleveland. Stone, whose regular staff of 200 creative people is much more dignified, gives his Hi Brows free rein. They include an ex-nightclub comedian, a onetime disk jockey who likes to blow on trumpet mouthpieces while he creates, and an astrologer who owns the largest collection of Batman comic books in Ohio; their office decor ranges from a sculptured bust with a leather flying helmet on it to a tape recorder...
...Morrisroe. Though the priest had been blasted in the back, Coleman was indicted only for "assault and battery," a charge that Alabama Attorney General Richmond Flowers termed ridiculous. As the trial began, Flowers requested dismissal of the case, so as to leave open the possibility that Coleman might be rein-dieted on a charge of assault with intent to kill. Circuit Judge T. Werth Thagard was only too happy to comply -dismissing the case "with prejudice," meaning that he did not want to hear it again in any event. (In the unlikely possibility that Coleman is reindicted, another judge...