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...contest will feature many of the nation's top runners, including Olympic hurdlers Rod Milburne, Willie Davenport and Tom Hill...
FRIDAY: Twilight Zone. Agnes Moorehead is the lone and wordless star of one of the best Twilight Zone's ever. She plays an old farm woman doing lonely battle with invaders from another planet. Rod Serting script...
...mystical network of Catholic laymen and clerics whose members combine spiritual discipline with temporal progress. They have had great influence on Spain. Many of the government's technocrats and statesmen belong, including Foreign Minister Gregorio López Bravo and Development Planning Minister Laureano López Rodó. If that group came to power, it would likely protect traditional values and at the same time press for moderate reform. Its members are best qualified to position Spain in modern Europe...
...rapid industrial growth can be traced in part to Spain's particular blend of autocracy and technocracy. Because of the country's autocratic government, Development Planning Minister Laureano López Rodó and his economists were able to draw up four-year plans in the certain knowledge that the programs they devised would be carried out. They directed private and government investment into key resource industries and, increasingly, those offering better than average growth, such as petrochemicals, electronics, autos, trucks and shipbuilding...
...boom has speckled the Spanish sunshine with clouds that López Rodó's planners had not counted on. The country is counting the cost of rapid urbanization. Hopeful peasants are forsaking such dirt-poor regions as Andalusia or Estremadura for the industrial cities, where there is scarcely enough new housing to shelter even a fraction of them. Tourists too have paid part of the price of Spain's new prosperity. Stretches of the sunny coastlines are now so grotesquely overbuilt that they have become little more than ugly concrete jungles; the famed Costa...