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Susan J. Herter '67, studying in Granada on a leave of absence from Radcliffe, was one of a group of Americans clubbed by Spanish policemen during a student demonstration at the University of Madrid Monday afternoon...
...Monday, Jackie was so fed up that she was reported ready to fly back to Madrid. Adding to her annoyance was the rumor that her whole Spanish holiday was only a disguised tryst with widower Antonio Garrigues, father of eight and a friend of the Kennedy family ever since Joe Jr. visited Madrid during the Civil War. As the rumors mounted, Angie Duke decided to call an impromptu conference on Jackie's behalf, saying: "I want to make it crystal-clear and completely understood that there is no basis in fact in rumors of an engagement...
What had begun inauspiciously was finally turning out to be great fun, and, to prove the point, Jackie decided to stay an extra day before departing for Madrid and thence to the U.S. "To visit Seville and not ride horseback at the fair is equal to not coming at all," she declared. Whereupon, donning the traditional traje corto (black-trimmed red jacket, flowing chaps, flat broad-brimmed hat), she mounted a white horse and made a leisurely paseo of the fair. "I don't know what I'm doing," Jackie laughed, belying her superb equipoise...
...with a very inefficient seven-over-par. Too bad for General Francisco Franco, 73, who commands quite a few things in Spain, but not the golf courses. As he left the new links at Sotogrande near Gibraltar, Franco asserted himself. The two-hole course on his estate outside Madrid obviously wasn't rough enough, so he sent word to his gardener to find out how the Sotogrande club has come up with such difficult fairways and greens...
...Bottom. "?La Bomba es recuperada!" shouted villagers in the fishing town of Palomares five miles away. "They have pulled it up!" In Madrid, one newspaper suggested that the recovery was a Holy Week "miracle." For Palomaresinos, the splash-out meant a return to workaday chores that will always be colored by the phantasmagoria that ensued after a bomb-laden SAC B-52 collided with a jet tanker in their skies last Jan. 17. Ever since, hundreds of airmen, many in Martian masks and protective clothing, had scoured the countryside collecting the remains of the three bombs (two burst open...