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Truncheons for U.P.I. In recent months, the government has been using the stern approach. It confiscated part of the press run of the Madrid newspaper ABC because it extolled the virtues of liberal constitutional monarchies abroad. Three times the government seized the Catholic magazine Juventud Obrera because of its habit of criticizing state institutions. Last month the entire board of the Catholic weekly Signo was summarily sacked for printing an interview with an exiled Spanish Communist. To date, only the editor has complied and resigned; the rest of the staff have refused to budge...
Though Genovès lives and works in suburban Madrid, he does not consider his work a critique of the Franco regime. "I want to be a universal painter," he says. "What I am trying to show is that a multitude is not an anonymous mass, but a collection of individuals who would, in an ideal world, each be authentically free...
...living. But politics also clearly played a role in last week's disturbances. Clandestine Communist labor leaders wanted to demonstrate their considerable power among Spanish workers. So far, police have kept the disturbances well under control, and students calmed down so quickly after classes were suspended that both Madrid and Barcelona universities expected shortly to resume normal schedules...
...Velasco on either side of the camera. Not so, said Charlie's daughter. "I have no intention of marrying until I'm 30 at least." That does seem a bit of a wait, but Manuel looked reasonably patient when the two got together at a party in Madrid, where Geraldine has bought an apartment and set to work in a new Spanish film...
...news, gasped Madrid's daily Pueblo, "has come like the explosion of a hydrogen bomb, like the alighting of 100,000 fiery angels." Or so it seemed to Spain's aficionados. The man who dropped the bomb, Bullfighter Manuel Benitez, 29, better known as El Cordobés, seemed unshakable in his decision. The night before, he explained, "I fell asleep, but suddenly at 3:20 in the morning I leaped out of bed ready to break the news. Providence told me to do this." So, after seven professional years that earned him some $7,000,000 plus...