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...Puerto Rico and Venezuela in the Latin American eliminations. Mostly poor kids, many of the Monterrey players worked as bootblacks to supplement the income of their fathers, who work in mills and factories for wages as low as $1.50 a day. But they were fine ballplayers, especially Héctor Epitacio Torres, 12, the skinny (85 Ibs.) star pitcher. Nicknamed Malita (evil little woman) because, like his ex-pitcher father, called La Mala, Héctor's stuff is sneaky quick, Righthander Torres had kept Monterrey going most of the season with good control and a fine fast ball...
Opposition Candidate Luis Héctor Alvarez of the right-wing National Action Party (P.A.N.) has campaigned earnestly for cleaner government-and got nowhere. He has been heckled in the hinterlands and relegated to newspaper back pages. As for the Communist Party candidate, an ancient lawyer named Miguel Mendoza López, few Mexicans even knew where he was last week. The campaign has been historically quiet; only one P.A.N. worker has been killed...
...somewhat less entrancing war in Kansas. From the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, which Ramfis attended in between nightclub-commando exercises, came the word: the young general "did not successfully complete the course." Lest Ramfis lose himself in remorse, kindly Uncle Héctor Trujillo, figurehead President of the Dominican Republic, provided a nice nongraduation present: appointment to the newly created post of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the country's armed forces...
...more than six months Chile has been the reluctant host to the most prominent and best-heeled band of ex-Dictator Juan Perón's sidekicks anywhere outside an Argentine prison. There was Perón's Chamber of Deputies President Hóctor Cámpora; José Gregorio Espejo, once head of the General Confederation of Labor; John William Cooke, last boss of the Peronista Party; and Pedro Andrés Gomiz, former director of the nationalized Argentine oil industry. But it was two others who were most remembered back in Argentina. One was boyishly...
...strong-jawed newcomer from the Caribbean: fabulous Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, 61, who since 1930 has run the lush, green little Dominican Republic like a private plantation, piling up wealth by the tens of millions and crushing all opposition with iron ruthlessness. Trujillo had left his brother Héctor in charge at home and taken over as his country's chief delegate...