Word: spain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nation has become as much a part of Spanish year-end tradition as eating grapes in rhythm to the strokes of midnight in Madrid's Puerta del Sol. Last week the speech carried special interest. Many Spaniards hoped that Franco, now age 73, would indicate his answer to Spain's biggest question: After Franco, what...
They had to listen carefully. Looking spry and fit in a dark grey business suit, the Caudillo told a nationwide radio and television audience that he wanted peace on earth, social progress, economic advancement and Gibraltar-where, he warned, Spain was "not disposed to tolerate passively" continued British rule. He also advised Spanish girls to stay in Spain instead of risking "exploitations, swindles and abuses in big foreign cities...
With the general consent? This seemed to suggest that a referendum-the first national vote since 1947-might be arranged during 1966 to give the Spanish people a say on the future pattern of Spain. Underscoring the possibility was the announcement last week that a new census of voters will be taken by April...
...limitations. Transport workers and civil servants are still forbidden to strike, and the government can still ban any walkout by declaring that its motivation is "political." But the measure is unquestionably a major step forward, and it brought a few whiffs of other new freedoms. For the first time, Spain's censored press was permitted to follow the bill as it went through the parliamentary machinery. There was even discussion of its provisions on television. And, unlike the rubber-stamp parliaments of old, this year's session gave the bill a thorough going-over. For six weeks...
...Muzak, and a cast of supporting players that includes one girl who does nothing but help customers with their zippers). They are whirlwind travelers who can comb out 250 New York debutantes one day, rinse an Italian princess the next, and pin a pony tail on a marquesa in Spain before nightfall (Alexandre's itinerary took him around the world twice just in the month of October). Each is accompanied by a vast retinue of apprentice craftsmen and enough apparatus (hair dryers, electric curlers, rollers, sprays, creams, nets, wigs, wiglets, switches, and six varieties of scissors...