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...when Madrid University students called a demonstration march to demand freedom from their state-controlled syndicate, police and Falangist goons beat the marchers senseless, one student was shot, hundreds more arrested, and Franco fired his Education Minister for laxity. Last week the students finally got what they wanted. To end a three-month series of strikes and demonstrations, the regime published a decree allowing them to organize independent student unions of their own. No blood was spilled, and there were no mass arrests. The Falangist press even welcomed the new unions as "something we always wanted and never could...
Relations with the Communist bloc are also thawing. Although the Caudillo has not gone so far as to establish diplomatic contact, Spain has opened commercial offices in both Budapest and Warsaw, and allowed Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Bulgaria to send trade missions to Madrid. Spanish soccer teams often entertain Russian opponents these days, even though it means flying the hammer and sickle over Madrid's Santiago Bernabeu Stadium. The Catholic newspaper Ya, which, like the rest of the Spanish press, had for more than two decades been forbidden to publish a Russian dateline, last month opened its own Moscow...
Hero Nino Manfredi is a cheerful, sensitive young chap who chauffeurs cadavers around Madrid. One day he meets the public executioner's daughter (Emma Penella), a deep-bosomed spinster whose marriage opportunities have been blighted by her father's profession. Already bound by the facts of death, the daughter and the hearse driver soon begin to share the facts of life as well. When the girl becomes pregnant, the couple get married-at a macabre economy-sized ceremony in a busy chapel where the flowers, candlelight and carpeting are spirited away as they...
...Europe and pay the "living wage" of each country, varying from $40 a week in Scandaunia to $16 in Spain. They include positions with the Merimekko Dress Co. in Helsinki and with a distributor of Rolls Royces and Jaguars in Capetown. South Africa. Other jobs are situated in Parts, Madrid, Vienna, Belgrade, and Lqublians, Yugoslavis...
...back in Rio. Today, most of Perón's top lieutenants privately concede the impossibility of el retorno. Perón is under tight restriction by the Spanish government, and he is aging. But he remains a symbol of strength in a country that lacks leadership. In Madrid last week he took a haughty view of the election. "The people," he told friends, "have shown a high degree of maturity in their vote...