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...Juan de Bourbon, lives in quiet exile in Portugal. His son, Juan Carlos de Bourbon, has been educated in Spain. The twenty-five year old prince, now an officer in the Spanish Army, Navy, and Air Force, lives with his wife, Greece's Princess Sophia, in a villa outside Madrid. But, while Franco seems fond of the young prince, he has made no official moves in his direction...
Subsequent United States' support of the Franco regime was attacked by Allen Guttmann of Amherst College. "When Dwight D. Eisenhower went to Madrid and shook hands with Franco--the first head of state to do so since Hitler--I felt there was something wrong. When we put bases in Spain, I felt ashamed to be an American...
STILL LIFES-Schweitzer, 958 Madison Ave. at 75th. The stimulus of still life is ages old, the artist's response to it always new. Persuasive testimony to the fact: a collection that begins with Vanderhamen, a Spanish painter of Flemish ancestry who worked in Madrid more than 300 years ago, embraces Ruoppolo, Bernard, Lebasque, Marie Laurencin (a pink bouquet of roses on wood believed to be her only extant still life), Pechstein, Hartley and others, concludes with a contemporary Spaniard, Josep Roca. Through March...
...only two other people in the small room are Frank Ryan, an old friend of mine who now lives mostly in Madrid, and Mrs. Christina Austin, who is the lady whose name was mentioned with Mr. Ford's prior to and during the divorce. We are seated and settled in before the incredible coincidence is discovered, and then it is Mrs. Ford who has the poise to take charge. 'This had to happen some time,' she whispers...
...maneuvering over his tenuous claim to the Spanish throne. Spain's Dictator Francisco Franco, who wants a monarchy to succeed him but who is none too happy at the prospect of installing the present Spanish Pretender, Don Juan, went out of his way to welcome Carlos back to Madrid. The threat of competition from the Carlists would give Franco a useful lever to make disdainful Don Juan more receptive to his wishes. In Holland, all this maneuvering only served to increase the fear that Princess Irene and the whole House of Orange might one day become a tool...