Word: generalissimo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Spanish law decrees that Generalissimo Francisco Franco will one day be succeeded by a king or else a regent. But who? For years Spaniards have debated the question, but it took Franco's new and liberalized press laws to show how divided public opinion is on the subject. Since the law went into effect three months ago, the letters and editorial columns of Spain's dailies have been filled with increasingly confusing debates among supporters of the seven assorted claimants to the throne...
...Sargent Shriver Jr., 50, who as Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity has been generalissimo of the war from its start, the answer is simple: It must be won. Shriver, the Kennedy brother-in-law who had previously nursed the Peace Corps from dubious birth to wide acclaim, admits that the anti-poverty campaign has been and will continue to be "noisy, visible, dirty, uncomfortable and sometimes politically unpopular." He argues, nonetheless, that if it should fail, the loss would be crucially damaging...
...celebration throughout the island. Shops were decked with flags, soldiers and schoolchildren marched through the streets, and exploding strings of firecrackers forced bystanders to clap hands to their ears. Nevertheless, there were overtones of concern in Formosa last week when the National Assembly went through the motions of electing Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek to his fourth consecutive six-year term as President of Nationalist China...
Surprisingly, Madrid Bureau Chief Piero Saporiti had little trouble setting up an interview between the Generalissimo and the managing editor, but there were rigid conditions. The talks would be off the record, cover only generalities, and last exactly ten minutes. That was the word from protocol. But Franco himself prolonged the spirited session to 54 minutes, discussed freely and in detail such subjects as Viet Nam, NATO and the Soviet Union...
...more battle-ready than Generalissimo Dirksen, 69. After months of threatening what he calls "extended debate" to block repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act's celebrated section 14(b), Ev's hour had come. Dirksen, who on most days is about as soigné as Margaret Rutherford, even subjugated his mutinous curls, donned a neatly pressed blue suit, and had a shoeshine in honor of the occasion. An occasion it certainly was, presaging as it did one of the few defeats dealt Lyndon Johnson by the prodigiously productive 89th Congress...