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...been urging Franco Spain to show greater religious tolerance to its 20,000 Protestants. Pedro Cardinal Segura y Saenz, Archbishop of Seville, a man of monolithic opinions who dislikes Franco, the U.S. and Protestantism, told his countrymen this week that toleration would never do. Wrote Cardinal Segura in a pastoral letter...
...Cardinal Segura complained that a campaign of "benevolence" toward Protestantism had begun with expressions of sympathy for Protestant Britain when King George VI died, and that lately the campaign has increased "in an extraordinarily grave manner." Some people in Spain, he feared, have come to believe "that all religions are equally acceptable in the presence...
...Francisco ("Pancho") Segura, the national professional tennis championship, over Richard ("Pancho") Gonzales, 6-3, 6-4, 6-2; at Forest Hills...
After that, the fans settled back in their seats to. see if big Jake Kramer, 29, was still the best player in the world. Little (5 ft. 7 in., 150 Ibs.) Pancho Segura had been playing in pro preliminaries for two years while Kramer was knocking over the 1948-49 headliners, Bobby Riggs and Pancho Gonzales.* Segura had finally earned a shot at Kramer by winning the pro title last spring...
Bandy-legged, Ecuador-born Pancho Segura had Jake's number from the first. He covered court like a bird dog in a chicken coop, took the sting out of Kramer's big serve, whacked his own two-handed forehand drives into the far corners and outguessed Kramer in nearly every rally. It was all over in less than an hour. Score: 6-2, 6-2, 6-1. Explained a somewhat surprised Kramer: "Pancho knocked me down in the first set and never let me get off the floor." Pancho, who gets only a salary, to Kramer...