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...Molina, 65, primate of the Spanish Reformed Church, a tiny Episcopal congregation (3,500 members) in an overwhelmingly Roman Catholic country, who fought all his life for religious freedom in Spain-with enough success to say recently that "many of the great difficulties are disappearing"; of stomach cancer; in Madrid...
...newspaper A.B.C. is an institution in Spain. Usually dull, always conservative, it is nevertheless the most widely read and influential paper in Madrid. Besides, as the semi-official organ of the nation's organized monarch ists, it can justly claim to represent the government's position that Franco will one day be succeeded by a King. Yet early one morning last week, security cops moved in on newsstands to confiscate all copies of the paper they could find, readers. It even was the grabbed first it time from that A.B.C. sidewalk had been banned since the fall...
...than their paintings, were up against a wall. The government discouraged modernity, and its practitioners were honored any place but at home. As a freer spirit began to emerge in many phases of Spanish life, modern art enjoyed a resurgence. Now it has its own museum 90 miles from Madrid. Significantly, the founders are the artists themselves...
Rebels & Repairmen. In defiance, Catholic Action members two weeks ago took part in a demonstration of 3,500 Madrid workers seeking higher wages. Priests and seminarians seem almost equally restive, in search of change and experiment. In San Sebastian, for example, after students for the priesthood refused to attend certain spiritual exercises at the diocesan seminary, Bishop Lorenzo Bereciaurta closed down its theological department and expelled five of the rebels. And in a suburb of troublesome Barcelona last week, five priests opened a motorcycle repair shop in a slum, boldly announcing that they intended to become "worker priests...
...then there was Manuel Santana. Not all Spaniards fight bulls. At 28, Santana is a lively master from Madrid who aims baseline volleys the way Manolete used to place swords. The winner of last year's U.S. national championship at Forest Hills, he is a precisionist without a big serve, a tactician who learned his artful game on the relatively slow clay courts of Spain. He does pretty well on the faster grass...