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Spain has not held a direct parliamentary election since the Civil War engulfed it in 1936. Last week, as one of several liberalizing steps taken recently by Generalissimo Francisco Franco, the country prepared for at least a token return to democratic rule. It opened a national campaign that will end Oct. 10 when Spaniards take the unaccustomed step of going to the polls...
...endorsed by five parliamentary members or seven provincial deputies-most of whom, of course, are loyal to Franco. Otherwise, he must get the signatures of 1,000 eligible voters in his province, a step that requires campaign money and at least some rudiments of an organization. Yet the government ruled that each candidate must run on his own without party or associations, and must pay for his campaign out of his own pocket or through private financial connections. Since a two-week campaign with any hope of success would cost at least $50,000, that seems to rule out anyone...
Bott said Tuesday that the NSF pointed to certain irregularities of Smale's trip, such as receiving travel expenses from another group, returning to America on the "France" violating the NSF rule that American vessels should be used on financed trips, Bott felt that such irregularities "are of such minor nature that a more realistic approach would have been just to tell him, 'Look, just be more careful next time...
Dean Ford, chairman of the Committee, said the Masters and Deans did not rule out the possibility of putting parietals on their agenda later this year. But he also said he thought his colleagues were "quite sick of it" as an issue...
...unrelieved shrillness of your editorial of October 2. "The Shame of Faculty Silence," has overcome a long-standing rule of mine against indulging in letters to editors. What the Crimson does to its role as a reporter and ideally as a shaper of opinion at Harvard is obviously none of my business--though I am entitled to my own views about the effect on thoughtful readers of this sort of rhetorical overkill. What does concern me is the possible distortion of motives and effects implicit in your discussion of last week's visit to Washington by fifteen members of this...