Word: spanishness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week of fact-finding in Spain. As this week's issue will attest, it proved to be a productive visit. General Francisco Franco, who makes his sixth appearance on TIME'S cover (the last was March 18, 1946) in the 30 years since the Spanish Civil War, is not a man given to long talks with visiting American newsmen. But things in Spain have changed-as has Franco himself-and that is the point of the story...
...class. They are more acquisitive, not only because they can afford to buy more but also because more can be bought and more easily. The installment plan, introduced eight years ago and now a national institution, has put gas stoves, electric refrigerators and washing machines-now mass produced in Spanish factories-within the range of most city dwellers, and 40% of Spanish families now own a television...
...actually presides over a miniature court. Fifteen Spanish grandees take turns coming over from Spain to act as his lords-in-waiting, two career diplomats serve as his ministers, and a 42-man Privy Council advises him on affairs of state...
...alone was 125%) and hard to get that Spaniards dubbed them "haigas"-a slang term indicating that their owners were either very rich, very powerful or very crooked. Last year 170,000 vehicles came off the assembly lines of seven separate factories in five Spanish cities, and production is expected to double this year; the entire 1966 output of the Spanish-made SEAT cars is already sold out by dealers. Madrid's streets have become so clogged that the city has had to restrict parking in the downtown area. It has also opened three underground garages, one of which...
...Spain by the Grace of God." And quite probably, no one is more surprised. For until six years ago, Spain was isolated from most of the world, brooding, stewing in its evaporating juice. Foreign investment was unwanted and restricted, and Franco was as openly anticapitalist as he was antiCommunist. Spanish industries, creaking and featherbedded, stumbled along behind trade barriers that kept most foreign products out entirely and imposed rigid quotas and exorbitant tariffs on the rest...