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...Spanish head of state is Prince Juan Carlos de Borbon, who will become King Juan Carlos I. The prince, who was selected by Franco to be his heir, has been temporary chief of state since October...
...street, Give 'Em Hell, Harry occupies Central II, and next door in Central I, The World's Longest Running Feature continues. (And I thought it a disaster when the Sound of Music lasted 2 years in my home town.) James Whitmore recreates his state role as F.D.R.'s heir in Give 'Em Hell, Harry and from all accounts does Mr. Truman justice...
...dictator still clung to life with characteristic tenacity, the government literally gave up waiting for him to die. It resolved a growing crisis of authority by pressuring a reluctant Prince Juan Carlos de Borbón y Borbón, Franco's heir designate, to become his country's temporary Chief of State. Only after Franco's death or a complicated legal process declaring his incompetence would Juan Carlos be named King, Spain's first monarch since the abdication of his grandfather, Alfonso XIII...
...seven-year veteran of TIME'S news bureaus, who wrote the story in New York. Reporter-Researcher Sara Medina spent most of her week poring over histories, TIME files and clippings going back to pre-Civil War days. Meanwhile, Staff Writer Le Anne Schreiber prepared a profile of Heir Apparent Juan Carlos...
...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...