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...front, men wear two-piece bathing suits on the beaches, and unmarried girls are never permitted out after dark without a chaperone. Spaniards have long viewed with horrid fascination and some alarm the thriving colony of fun-loving American expatriates at sunbaked Costa del Sol, southwest of Malaga...
...weather. Those that came, despite their Neanderthal getup, behaved as circumspectly and with the same dogged gaiety as any like group in Sacramento or Scarsdale. But to the zealous guardsmen the party was saturnalia run amuck, and so they reported to their commanding officer, who alerted the military at Malaga. But the military could find no law against private gatherings of cave men and their women, and unaware of the commotion they had caused, the party guests went home...
...when a local photographer began to display some of the pictures he took that night, the military governor at Malaga seized the pictures and sent them to the civil governor, who in turn sent them on to Madrid. There, it was rumored, they were shown to Franco himself. As a result, Munn was fined $250 for arranging a meeting "of manifestly immoral nature." Each of his 40-odd guests was fined $75 for attending. Last week, after protesting in vain to the U.S. embassy, Cave Man Munn and a dozen of his playmates hired Spanish lawyers to file an appeal...
Bishop Angel Herrera of Malaga is one of the few men unafraid to speak out in Franco's Spain. Last week in a pastoral letter published in Madrid's Catholic daily Ya, the bishop said: "There is in the conscience of Spain a great lack . . . We have created a type of Christianity poor in social virtues. The lack of justice and, to a great extent, of mercy, maintains a system of sharing the national wealth which gives to a minority the great bulk of our income and keeps the multitude in poverty...
...sausage]." Then, spotting a rare 1904 engraving, Le Repas Frugal, he said: "I didn't know they had this. It's worth a fortune." But what held Picasso's attention longest was a plaster Madonna from his boyhood home. Exclaimed Picasso: "We had this statue in Malaga. Actually, it's a statue of Venus which father bought in the flea market. He painted on the tears, draped the figure in plaster-soaked cloth. Now my niece has made a crown of flowers. Good! Good! She continues the tradition...