Word: agrarians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...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...
...committee, to run against Kekkonen in next month's vote for the presidency. The Conservative Party decided not to run its own presidential candidate, but pledged to remain in the fight for parliamentary general elections in February. Kekkonen's principal support was thus reduced to his own Agrarian Party and the Communists-a stigma he has been trying hard to avoid...
...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...