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After Arias' proclamation, Spain officially entered a 30-day period of national mourning. In Madrid, the morning newspapers were on the streets with headlines long since set: FRANCO HA MUERTO. Radio stations dropped regular programming to play hour after hour of solemn requiem music. Later that day, Franco's body, dressed in a captain-general's uniform with a red sash, was borne from La Paz Hospital to El Pardo, his official residence outside Madrid, for a private funeral Mass. Spain's new ruler, Juan Carlos de BorbÓn y Borb...
...Franco's Falange movement: blue shirt and black tie. A leading spokesman for the "bunker" of hard-liners who oppose political liberalization, Giron a few days earlier had warned: "We say no, a rigorous and sharp no, to any change in the system." The celebrant at the requiem Mass was the Archbishop of Madrid, Vicente Cardinal Enrique y TarancÓn. A moderate reformer who has clashed with the regime, the cardinal in his restrained, stately eulogy noted that no man is free of mistakes. In effect, he proposed that Spain must accept the Franco legacy−but must...
When death finally did come for the archbishop in 1888, when he was 73, Santa Fe - and Lamy himself - had changed. "Bishop Juan," as his requiem Mass called him, was mourned by Indian, Mexican and Eastern American alike. "It was," reports Horgan at the conclusion of this superb biography, "the end of a fine...
Died. Rod Serling, 50, television and motion-picture writer and creator of the supernaturally spooky series Twilight Zone; of a heart attack; in Rochester, N.Y. After a grueling apprenticeship as a freelance scriptwriter, Serling went on to write Patterns, Requiem for a Heavyweight and other major television plays, earning six Emmy awards, more than any other writer...
...also a double requiem for the defeated hopes of the '60s. As a black girl who has become a lesbian puts it: "We all failed ... and by failing ourselves we failed in the test of the times. We had so much going for us ... so much potential ... Do you realize it, man? We were the youth of our times ... And we blew it. Blew it completely. Look where it all ended ... We just turned out lookin' like a bunch of punks and freaks...