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...last Fascist dictator died at 4:40 Thursday morning. He was only two weeks short of 83, and had ruled Spain for 36 years. The cause of death, according to the final hospital bulletin, was "irreversible cardiac arrest." It was something of a medical miracle that the frail Caudillo had survived so long as that. In the 34 days since Franco first collapsed with chest pains, he had undergone three operations that attempted to stem massive internal hemorrhaging and had suffered variously from Parkinson's disease, phlebitis, pulmonary edema and kidney failure. Even in conservative Catholic Spain, some questioned...
...however, reasserted the authority of all bishops -whether cardinals or not-in helping to govern the church. In 1973 and 1974 Pope Paul VI broadly hinted he might go further and admit a few ordinary bishops to the conclave that elects a pope. But last week, when Paul-frail but vigorous at age 78-released the rules for choosing his successor, the cardinals-only tradition survived intact...
...Liberty trophies, with typewriters pittering in the outer offices, and a casual hum of secretaries. The jowled, paunchy, business-suited Robert Welch of the Society's official portrait would have fit right in here--a solid, substantial businessman you would want to make candy for your kids. But the frail, pale just-this-side-of-the-nursing-home Robert Welch who told me he was "too busy to talk--all these manuscripts to go over, they need guidance from me, the monthly Bulletin to write," gesturing almost helplessly at the piles of paperwork his own bureaucracy was feeding...
...people admire a fighter more than the Spanish, who prize la valentia y el coraje (valor and mettle). This is why even his foes voiced respect for Generalissimo Francisco Franco last week. Three-and-a-half weeks ago, Spain's frail, 82-year-old Caudillo suffered a heart attack that would probably have killed most men. Yet neither that nor a chain reaction of complications that followed broke the dictator's grip on life. Franco's physicians and the Spaniards who gathered outside the Pardo Palace to pray or wait had no doubts about the outcome...
...fact, during the 1770s saints were scarcely visible and holiness was rare. Some good and heroic activities were performed by frail, errant and often irreligious people. Certainly, multitudes of decent folk led conventionally moral lives. But a second look at the past will be jolting to those who think that sexual waywardness and permissiveness are recent inventions. Public figures could keep mistresses and acknowledge their illegitimate children-as Benjamin Franklin did-without losing their good names or even their reputations as moralists. George Washington had to chase Philadelphia prostitutes from Valley Forge. In New York 500 "ladies of pleasure" kept...