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...long awaited athletic shakeup at Open University and Closed College finally broke last night with simultaneous announcements that the football coaches at both schools had been fired...
However, Franco is also a patriotic Spaniard who does not always put the interests of his Falange Party first. The Falange, which is the worst element in present Spanish politics, lost ground in the cabinet shakeup. The army held its ground. Monarchists (meaning, in Spain, conservatives who deplore much in the Franco regime) got nine out of 16 cabinet seats, a gain of three. There was serious talk that Franco might put young (13-year-old) Juan Carlos, son of the Pretender Don Juan, on the throne...
Report from Madrid: Franco is planning a full-scale cabinet shakeup, the first in six years. There seem to be three reasons: 1) Franco wants to establish better relations with the democratic world; 2) the Spanish people are increasingly restless under the Franco regime (TIME, March 19); 3) Spanish businessmen have long smarted under the rule of Minister of Industry and Commerce Juan Antonio Suances, who enforces a torpid, controlled economy in Spain. Rumored to go in the shakeup: Minister Suances...
...past year), high taxes and credit restrictions. The Liberals still held a top-heavy majority in Parliament (188 seats to 46 for the Tories, 28 for others), but their setback seemed likely to produce policy changes. Among the Ottawa rumors: further steps against inflation; a cabinet shakeup. The government had had a warning that Canadian voters can tire even of the Liberals...
Fourth, the committee recommended a shakeup in the admissions department to attract a better student body to the College. But her too there are dangerous provisions. The committee wants the "alumni representative in this new setup. . . (to) be in general control of all recruiting work," and it believes that "the so-called 'all-around boy' is what Harvard wants most." With alumni in charge of the recruiting, beating the bushes for "all-around boys," there would be a great danger of the College's following admission policies unbalanced in favor of athletes. Harvard is a scholastic institution, and that must...