Word: spain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Spain - a punishment far harsher than a few months in jail. And last month, for the first time in history, the grey-uniformed security cops, whom Spaniards call los grises, defied centuries of university tradition by entering a Madrid University classroom building to break up an "unauthorized" student meeting...
...ministries and parliamentary committees for more than three years, and there seems to be little hope that they will soon become law. Neither measure is all that radical. The religion bill, pushed by Foreign Minister Fernando Maria Castiella to wipe away the image of religious intolerance that has hurt Spain since the Inquisition, would permit the nation's tiny non-Catholic minority (5,000 Jews and 30,000 Protestants) to build their own houses of worship-which, in practice, they are already doing. The press bill, drawn up by Franco's hard-sell Information Minister Manuel Fraga Iribarne...
Once ignored, Tapies and fellow Prize winners Antonio Saura (Carnegie, Guggenheim) and Eduardo Chillida (Venice, Carnegie) are now treated as VIPs, as is Communist Pablo Picasso (although he has refused to set foot in Spain since the civil war). In 1960, an audience of high officials and intellectuals gave a standing ovation of 30 curtain calls to a play that bitterly attacked the regime...
Franco has been too wise to try to stop Spaniards from talking. "Free speech is abundant," says a confirmed Francophobe, "and it is a right we exercise to the fullest." One of Spain's most cherished institutions, in fact, is the tertulia, an informal club of a dozen or so men who gather around the same marble-topped table in the same cafe every week and, over endless cups of cafes solos and glasses of water, tear the regime apart. Such traditional hangouts as Madrid's Café Gijón will have a dozen or more tertulias...
Golden Eggs. Every boom brings its dislocation, and Spain's pell-mell rush to industrialize is no exception. The flood of workers to the cities has sharply cut farm production, forcing Spain to import food. Government spending to feed the development plan has brought a new round of inflation at home, and a horrendous $2 billion trade deficit abroad-too much even for tourist dollars to make up for. Many economists fear that Spain is trying to do too much too quickly. "Our economy is the goose that lays the golden egg," warns Ullastres...