Word: segura
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...days later, cashing in on their smashing cup performance, Sedgman and McGregor announced that they were giving up the short green grass of amateur play for the long green of professional tennis: a whopping $100,000 guarantee from Pro Promoter Jack Kramer. Teaming up with Pancho Segura, Tennist Kramer will meet Sedgman and McGregor in a nationwide tour that starts in Los Angeles this week...
...Sedgman, Kramer still commands the all-court game that won him two U.S. singles titles and one at Wimbledon and helped bring back the Davis Cup from Australia in 1946. In his pro tours, Kramer has whipped the best available: Bobby Riggs, 69-20; Pancho Gonzales, 96-27; and Segura...
Seville's hard-shelled Cardinal Segura, who has repeatedly attacked such freedom of worship as is granted to Spain's 20,000-odd Protestants, is equally persistent in his opposition to Caudillo Franco's Fascist party, the Falange. His reason: he believes that both Protestants and Falangists are a threat to Roman Catholicism. The latest bulletin of his archdiocese, out last week, contained a letter forbidding seminarians to attend the Falange's summer youth camps. The atmosphere there, said the cardinal, "is full of perils for the formation of the conscience of a future priest...
...days before, Cardinal Segura sent his flock a pastoral letter deploring the semi-religious ceremonies which the Falange conducts in each Spanish town around the "Cross of the Fallen," ubiquitous local memorials to Spain's civil war dead. These invariably end with local Falange leaders crying out: "Those fallen for God and Spain?"-and with the crowds answering: "Present...
...Cardinal Segura fears that Protestants might take advantage of loopholes in the bill of rights to proselytize for their religion; such activity is not expressly forbidden. He would like Spain's government to reaffirm the 1851 concordat-abrogated in 1931 by the Spanish Republic-which pledges the state to assist the Catholic bishops, "especially when they are compelled to oppose the wickedness of men who are attempting to pervert the souls of the faithful and to corrupt their morals . . ." This, by Cardinal Segura's definition, would include any airing of Protestant ideas or any Protestant worship for Spaniards...