Word: spain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Captain General Agustin Muñoz Grandes, 69, Franco's oldest comrade in arms and the man who, as Vice President of the Spanish state, will take over interim power at Franco's death. Commander of Spain's Blue Division, which fought against the Russians on Hitler's eastern front, Armed Forces Chief Muñoz Grandes is now ailing, lives quietly with his wife in a small apartment in Madrid, avoids publicity...
...Solis Ruiz, 52, Minister of the Movimiento Nacional, Spain's bureaucracy-clogged official party, and boss of its labor syndicates. His jowls are heavy and blue, his head is bald, and his speech is thick with the accents of Andalusia, but Pepe Solis is probably the sharpest practicing politician in the land. The father...
Onetime Ambassador to Peru and the Vatican, he has a burning desire to join Spain to the rest of Europe. He works closely with U.S. Ambassador Angier Biddle Duke, but his relations with the British are somewhat strained: he is determined to win back Gibraltar, once even wrote a violently anti-British book entitled Spain's Claim...
Half his time is spent traveling around Spain, dedicating new hotels and other wise promoting new tourist lures; the other half is devoted to overseeing the Spanish press, which, until the long-discussed press law takes effect, still takes its orders from the government...
...eminence grise - partly because everything about him, including his hair, suit, socks, tie and personality, seems grey. The appearance is deceiving. Son of a Catalan industrialist, he spent much of the civil war as an under ground Nationalist agent (code number: 711) in Republican Barcelona, went on to become Spain's youngest law professor, at 25, and an international authority on public administration. He is an avid tennis player, is up at 6:45 each morning and in his office at 8. Brilliant and tireless, he has a corps of loyal followers who have come to occupy top positions...