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...never know what the next step will be," said former Vice President Richard M. Nixon, 50, describing his fling at flamenco dancing in Madrid. On a two-month tour abroad before plunging into his new job with a Manhattan law firm, Nixon squired his family around the Spanish landscape, then-gathering material for two Satevepost articles about international affairs-flew off to Barcelona for "a very pleasant interview" with Generalissimo Franco. At week's end the tourists were in Egypt for another round of business-with-pleasure, seeing Cairo, Aswan, Luxor, and President Nasser...
...church history. Acting on bad advice from Milanese students, he sent a wire to Dictator Francisco Franco, protesting a death sentence that had been meted out to a young Spaniard. Franco cabled back, noting that Montini's telegram had been released to the press before it had reached Madrid, and that the sentence had been imprisonment, not death. The Generalissimo's message icily concluded: "I respectfully kiss the sacred purple...
...four books-Ferdinand and Isabella, The Conquest of Mexico, The Conquest of Peru and Philip II. Prescott may have had no first-hand experience of Spain, but he had what was perhaps better-good friends in the U.S. diplomatic service. He used them to get access to documents in Madrid that no historian had seen before. The scaffolding of fact upon which Prescott constructed his books was so solid that more than a century after their publication, his histories remain basic sources of information on the Spanish empire...
...British officials were red-faced with apologies for the apparent snafu of security measures. But Frederika swiftly regained composure, sent Marti an autographed photo "for your prompt help to two strangers in distress," then flew home. Awaiting her was news to delight even a beleaguered queen-an announcement from Madrid that Daughter Princess Sophie, married last spring to Prince Juan Carlos of Spain, will make Frederika a grandmother some time next December...
Next day at dawn, Grimau, pale but composed, was led into the courtyard of Carabanchel Prison just outside Madrid. He walked alone to the wall, refused a blindfold, shouted "Viva el Comunismo!", and then collapsed under a volley of shots fired by Spanish Moroccan troops...