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...Spain's long cultural and political isolation is based on his twofold conviction that 1) the populace as a whole now accepts his regime, and 2 ) Spain cannot survive economically if it is excluded from the European Common Market, whose members bitterly dislike his autocratic ways. The stubborn illegal strikes that crippled Spain's economy for two months last year also forced el Caudillo to recognize that the country's hard-pressed workers are desperately eager to enjoy living standards comparable to those of other Europeans...
...come together many times in many rooms, with nothing in common but an avowed purpose: to get the city's newspapers back into print. In this purpose, both have signally failed. They have nothing to say to each other beyond a few cold, perfunctorily polite words. In their stubborn refusal to start meaningful negotiations, it is almost as if Bertram Anthony Powers, president of New York Local 6 of the International Typographical Union, and Amory Howe Bradford, general manager of the New York Times, were anxious mainly to keep the newspapers off the streets...
...knew I was asking for trouble. If it didn't work, I was dead." It worked so well that Jucker's Bearcats have lost only five games out of 68, won two straight N.C.A.A. championships, and are strong favorites to win a third. Last week, beating stubborn Dayton 44-37, No. 1-ranked Cincinnati won its seventh game and 25th in a row-longest winning streak in college basketball...
...publishers and the striking printers, said he. were still "very far apart''; the nation's mightiest metropolitan press would probably stay out of action for "days or weeks." The forecast seemed inevitable. Even before Wirtz arrived, the strike had degenerated into a deadlock of stubborn wills...
Potential Fatalities. Both sides have settled down to stubborn warfare that could, if sustained, kill off as many as three Manhattan dailies. One candidate for extinction is Dorothy Schiff's Post, a liberal afternoon tabloid with a tenuous lease on life. The Post, which has been replenished with periodic and generous transfusions from Dolly Schiff's personal fortune (she inherited $9 million), has served notice on the I.T.U. that it can survive neither a protracted strike nor a punitive contract. "I'm in a terrible position," said Mrs. Schiff last week. ''If I show...