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...couldn't say much-political pronouncements are touchy with him, particularly when he is on Spanish soil, as he was then. He roared with laughter when I tried to put a political question to him. He is an exhilarating talker in English, and probably in the five other languages he speaks as well." When Artist Henry Koerner painted Don Juan earlier in Portugal, he was dressed more formally in the uniform of the Maestranza de Ronda, an honorary Spanish military order which he has headed since he was a young...
...pieces "Hispanicus," and he takes full credit for Spain's economic progress. Actually, much of the credit belongs to huge injections of cash and advice from abroad. Start of the money flow came even before Franco agreed to let the U.S. build air and naval bases on Spanish soil; in a decade the U.S. pumped $503 million into Spain in military aid alone. An even greater sum from abroad has gone to modernize the Spanish economy and implement the 1959 stabilization plan after Spain's disastrous inflation. The plan worked. The soaring prices leveled off; investors regained confidence...
Some of the Pretender's backers want El Rey to get tough and exploit the ferment in Spain with a rousing declaration to speed Franco's end. Some Spaniards even say that he should go back and live on Spanish soil. Don Juan refuses. "Couldn't . . . It'd raise problems . . . I'd be accused of meddling in politics," he mutters. He can only steer the lonely and precarious course of not publicly antagonizing Franco and yet suggesting to the waiting Spanish people how he feels about the regime that in 1945 he called...
...family and friends conspire to cure him of his vision, and he ends up, like any good little boy, building collective villages out of blocks and playing "Unmask the Kulak." In a thinly disguised satire of Communist Poland, Novelist Stanislaw Len describes the mythical planet of Pinta. Its soil is so arid that the government embarks on a series of irrigation projects...
...creedal demands on their members, stressing right feeling rather than right belief. This intellectual open-door policy seems to appeal to the men of a new age of science. Many of the delegates in Washington were scientists, and both Harvard and M.I.T. are considered by Greeley to be "good soil" for producing converts. The Unitarian Church in Albuquerque is composed almost entirely of Atomic Energy Commission employees. In Schenectady, N.Y., 75% of the members of the city's Unitarian church are technicians on the General Electric payroll. Says Unitarian Greeley: "We have more than the average denomination...