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...Europe, as well as the best traveled, having visited 60 countries in the past three years. Tough and openly ambitious, he is more politically flexible than LÓpez RÓdo: he has been associated with both the half-moribund Falange party and the pragmatic, outward-looking Opus Dei, whose members (including LÓpez RÓdo) dominate Franco's Cabinet. While he was Minister...
...likely he will someday be Spain's Prime Minister. Whoever takes over in the post-Franco era will face a task made more complex by the long years during which all opposition was suppressed. Almost every institution in Spain-from the army to the church and even Opus Dei itself-is divided between conservative and moderately progressive wings, and on how to deal with increasing signs of unrest. In recent weeks there have been clashes between police and unemployed workers in the poor barrios of Madrid, and demonstrations against rising prices (Spain's inflation rate is 7.8%). Campus...
...fellow who went back for seconds turned out to be Radical Lawyer William Kunstler, who said he had had no food the day before. "I'd eat anything." he said, speaking with his mouth full. ··· After receiving the dedication of Magnum Opus for Organ from Composer Herbert Howells, Britain's Prime Minister Edward Heath reminisced to the Royal College of Organists about the days when he himself was a 15-year-old choirmaster and organist. Composer Howells, he said, "told me that if I was prepared to be as unpleasant as most of the great...
...Henry Gibson, the diminutive, shaky-voiced poet, late of TV's Laugh-In, has become a full-fledged eco-centric. First it was some pro-ecology statements in the summer issue of Environmental Quality magazine. Last week he delivered his magnum opus, a poem cycle set to Saint-Saens' Carnival of the Animals, which was played by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra at the Hollywood Bowl. As the music soared, Henry versed about news-wise kangaroos, pacifist elephants, and hens and roosters who have been brutalized by technology...
Rabble-Rouser Abbie Hoffman had to borrow $25,000 and publish it himself. Newspapers refuse to advertise it and most bookstores won't stock it-possibly because storekeepers fear people might take too literally the title of Hoffman's latest opus, Steal This Book. Frustrated at every turn, the Yippie leader last week set up shop on the sidewalk outside one of Manhattan's bookshops and began hawking the book, which offers practical instruction in gypping telephone companies, mixing Molotov cocktails and sowing pot seed. Sure enough, more people stole than bought. After disposing of 50 copies...