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...Borbón. Tall (6 ft. 2 in.), curly-haired and athletically handsome, Juan Carlos is the grandson of Spain's last ruling King, Alfonso XIII, as well as a great-great-grandson of Britain's Queen Victoria and a direct descendant of France's Bourbon monarchs. Despite his lineage, however, the Prince is less the product of royalty than the creation of a commoner. Under the close surveillance and tutelage of Franco since he was ten years old, Juan Carlos has been so thoroughly molded in the image of el Caudillo that he might appropriately...
...that his family established after Spain became a republic in 1931. Juan Carlos' moderately liberal father Don Juan preferred exile to life under Franco's authoritarian rule; in 1948, though, he agreed to have his son educated in Spain under Franco's guidance. Hostility toward the Bourbon heir from both rightists and left-wing antimonarchists was so intense that the ten-year-old Prince became a virtual prisoner in Las Jarillas, a heavily guarded Madrid estate where he began private high school studies. There Juan Carlos received his first indoctrination into the quasi-Fascist philosophy of Franco...
...have three children. Mustered out as a major at 24, Bentsen was elected the youngest county judge in Texas. In 1948, he ran successfully for the U.S. House of Representatives, becoming the youngest member. He impressed a fellow Texan, Speaker Sam Rayburn, who included Bentsen in his after-hours bourbon-and-strategy sessions. Even so, Bentsen did not make much of a mark in the House-with the exception of a speech he now regrets. During the Korean War, he urged that atomic bombs be dropped on the North Koreans unless they withdrew from the South. "I am wiser today...
...their B&E's, their narrowness--without uttering so much as a complaint. Becoming slightly reflective and mellow now in his old age--due perhaps to the death of his wife (which he has accepted unquestioningly) but also no doubt to the daily administration, orally, of two jiggers of bourbon--he has become the kind narrator and apologist for the provincial orthodoxies of his community; like the stage manager from Our Town, he is the man who talks from beginning to end of The Guardian...
...Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, on the verge of a new round of Middle East talks, joined with Attorney General Edward Levi in bringing to the American Bar Association's convention in Montreal Ford's messages of diplomatic and investigative restraint. Then Kissinger flew off to the bourbon belt and in Birmingham outlined American interest against the Communists in Portugal. In Bloomington, Ind., meanwhile, Secretary of the Treasury William Simon was smiting big Government hip and thigh, while Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz went before Maine's poultry federation to extol the country's productive might...