Word: spain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heart attack; in Biarritz, France. Though Rosenblatt represented such contestants as Stavros Niarchos and Alfred Vanderbilt in divorce suits, family peace was his main concern-and it was nowhere more evident than in the garment district, where his quiet good sense settled many strikes and staved off many others. Spain, where he maintained a home was his second country; in 1966, he and his wife were honored with the Order of Isabel la Católica for their efforts at strengthening U.S.-Spanish relations...
This hefty, meticulous report on the authors meanderings and experiences in Spain is, he says, "a 19th century English-style travel book." Happily, it is that and much more. It is an unabashed celebration of an old infatuation with a country, and thus has the engaging, slightly breathless quality that is rarely found in modern travel books, now that the world has grown small...
James Michener first visited Spain as a chart boy aboard a freighter that hauled oranges from the eastern coast to the marmalade factories of Dundee. In the 35 years since then, he has returned repeatedly, both as a knockabout traveler and a rich tourist. In his book he makes no effort to prettify the country's problems or ignore its faults. As long as Spain remains ruled by the army, the landed families and the church, he sees scant hope of any dramatic social or industrial progress-although he does grant that there have been genuine advances in recent...
...officials is an even more startling decline in seminary enrollment, which the cardinals rather gratuitously attributed to today's "atmosphere of materialism and naturalism." In the past decade, 45 French dioceses have had to close down their major seminaries for lack of applicants, and even in strongly Catholic Spain the dropout rate among candidates to the priesthood is nearly 50%. U.S. seminary enrollment last year fell by 5,541-more than twice the decline...
...every 800 Catholics; worldwide, the ratio is now about one for every 1,300 Catholics-and it is getting worse. In 1966, the number of Catholics increased by 11,000,000; but the church gained only 5,000 new priests. Major crisis countries, said the cardinals, include France, Spain, Brazil, Argentina, and the U.S. According to the 1968 Official Catholic Directory, the nation's total of priests last year decreased by 89-the first drop since at least...