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Havana carefully did not tell the Cuban people that Fidel Castro was giving up one of his most important posts. The official announcement last week merely stated that the all-powerful National Agrarian Reform Institute, which runs Cuba's communized agriculture, was getting a new boss. He is Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, a longtime Communist economic theoretician and, next to Secretary-General Bias Roca, top man in the party's hierarchy...
CARLOS RAFAEL RODRÍGUEZ, 48, editor of the Communist newspaper Hoy, professor of economics at Havana University and now: president of the vitally important Agrarian Reform Institute. Fond of good eating, good tailoring and fancy cuff links, Rodríguez joined the Communist Party at Havana University in the 1930s. A Marxist theoretician, he served as a government minister without portfolio in 1942-43 during Dictator Batista's long honeymoon with the Reds. At the recent Punta del Este foreign ministers' conference, the Cuban voice was that of puppet President Osvaldo Dorticós. but the words...
...quit public life. Only a few took his advice. In presidential elections last month, Kekkonen himself was overwhelmingly re-elected as the man who could get along with Moscow. In last week's parliamentary race (parliamentary and presidential elections are held separately in Finland), Kekkonen's moderate Agrarian Party again did extremely well, while anti-Communists showed that they were still very much a factor in Finnish politics...
Having mastered the lesson that Castro was a Communist from way back, the moral was drawn: Communism is congenital. It is not a political response to certain conditions, but a pathological state, overt in those who espouse it, latent in those who but show the symptoms (Agrarian reform, trade with the East, a vocabulary that includes "imperialism" ...). It is worth noting that the triumph of the congenital theory has invalidated the hypothesis that Communism is a contagious disease, spread by certain strong carriers like Che Guevara in countries with weak Constitutions. This development makes the solution of the problem surgical...
...ingenious answer to the economic problems faced by small colleges as enrollment explodes in the 1960's. "We cannot justify letting these facilities stand idle three months a year," says Princeton-educated President Weimer Hicks, 52. "Summer vacations are simply a throwback to the days of an agrarian society." Moreover, says Hicks, year-round college is sound academically: "Is it right for the minds of our students to lie idle three months a year...