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Strikes, demonstrations and violence continued to trouble Spain last week. In Basauri, a suburb of Bilbao in rebellious Basque country (TIME, March 15), a demonstrator was gunned down by the Guardia Civil; a furious crowd forced the guardsmen to retreat to their headquarters. In Tarragona, a worker fell from a roof to his death during a clash with police. Shipyard workers even struck in Franco's birthplace. But a quieter event of considerable political significance occurred last week in Madrid, where nine military officers were found guilty of sedition...
...told him briskly: "Let's start working together at once. We are going to break traditional molds." In the next years, the two worked in close collaboration. Every few weeks, Miró traveled from his house in Majorca to Royo's studio, a converted flour mill in Tarragona, outside Barcelona. There Royo would spread his newest tapestries on the floor. Miró studied each, with all its intricate twists, sworls, braids and tailings. Then he might splash a design across the rhythmic shapes, or snatch up some scrap of cloth to provide an accent or an assertion, using...
...Spain's primate, Enrique Cardinal Pla y Deniel, 89, sent his resignation to the Pope more than a year ago upon falling ill; it may now be accepted. Of the other Spanish cardinals, Malaga's Angel Herrera y Oria, 79, sent a resignation that was accepted, and Tarragona's Benjamin de Arriba y Castro, 80, reportedly offered to step down. Paris' Maurice Cardinal Feltin, 83, said last week that he planned to retire, and Bologna's Giacomo Cardinal Lercaro, who will be 75 next month, is ready to leave at the Pope's pleasure...
...winding road in the Prades mountains, inland from the ancient Spanish city of Tarragona, stands the Cistercian monastery of Poblet, a place that is hard to get to and equally difficult to leave behind. It was founded in the middle of the 12th century by monks imported from the Fontfroide monastery in France. As always with Cistercian monasteries, the monks had picked their site with a view to maintaining a balance between the spiritual and the useful. In the center of the main cloister bubbled a pure natural spring. The surrounding fields were and are fertile, and the blue...
Miro, in the U.S. for the first time, had left his farm in Tarragona, Spain, to paint a 30-foot mural for a Cincinnati restaurant (which will also display a teetering "mobile" by Sculptor Alexander Calder). Manhattan exhilarates Miro, and he expects it to give his art more oomph...