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...couldn't control the ball at all," said Dennis Kloske, a native of Madrid, who play inside right. "Our skills really broke down due to the slippery field and we had to lower our play to their (Princeton's) style...
...that is, Perón is not outmaneuvered by the present government of President Alejandro Lanusse. Perón is trying to get his election bandwagon rolling from Madrid, without returning to Argentina for the campaign. "I can lead just as well from here," he says -and also remain above the current political chaos and economic setbacks in Buenos Aires. Then, too, there is the entirely reasonable fear that he might be assassinated if he returned home...
...Madrid lawyer who spoke those harsh words about his own country is an influential Roman Catholic layman with good friends in the top echelons of the Spanish Establishment. He is, moreover, a hero of the Spanish Civil War, and the sole survivor of four brothers who held the railway tunnel at Somosierra Pass north of Madrid for six days against heavy Republican odds...
Almost overnight, Miralles became a martyr-hero to the lawyers of Spain, who have never been noted for their radicalism. The powerful 8,500-member Madrid bar took up Miralles' cause. Risking contempt sentences of their own, 200 lawyers issued a joint statement protesting Miralles' punishment. When influential church leaders joined the protest, he was released on Franco's personal orders...
...government has announced plans to reduce the number of judicial systems from eight to three-and to eliminate the dreaded public order courts altogether. In the finest tradition of Spanish obscurantism, however, the announcement was made in the Canary Islands and was briefly mentioned by only one newspaper in Madrid...