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...someone else. In Guatemala, opposition by coffee growers and businessmen has managed to kill Conservative President Manuel Ydigoras Fuentes' attempts to initiate a much-needed income tax. In El Salvador, where the contrast between the barefoot poor and the well-manored rich is extreme, the influential El Diario de Hoy editorialized: "The last thing we need is a social revolution; what we need is greater mechanization...
...Communist Architect Niemeyer. Rationed to two beers and a teaspoon of whisky a day, Guignard finished the brightly colored childlike paintings in 17 days while a record player blared Bach's St. Matthew Passion and Debussy's The Martyrdom of St. Sebastian. The critics were ecstatic. Diario Carioca called the paintings too good for the chapel...
...Diario de la Marina claims quick distribution, parachuting weekly copies from planes which must not only evade U.S. patrols but the Cuban air force too. Diario, reputedly the oldest Spanish-language paper in the hemisphere, is dropped into Cuba two days after publication in a 12-in. by 6-in. packet, tightly folded so as to resist the wind. About 5.000 copies of the two-color, 20-24 page tabloid are sold in Miami; 2,500 go to Cuba by parachute and other means as the gift of Editor José Ignacio Rivero and the twelve-man staff who fled...
...against the Red threat for a year. But a Havana priest named Moisés Arrechea recently went on television to say that the "humanism" which Castro espouses is "the work of God himself." Last week, when Castro labor goons followed up the seizure of the pro-Catholic daily Diario de la Marina by grabbing the independent Prensa Libre, Cuba's largest newspaper, Father Guillermo Sardinas rushed to the paper's office to give his congratulations. Said Sardinas, who is chief chaplain of the rebel army: "It was inconceivable that Prensa Libre should oppose the very nation that...
...stand, Diario paid dearly. Over the months, Castro mobs had burned bundles of the paper in the streets, and Editor Rivero, fearful for his life, went into hiding, stayed in the homes of friends all over the city. When word reached Castro last week that Diario planned an editorial calling for free elections, the Premier's patience snapped and the seizure order went out. In its first editorial statement, the new management of the paper justified the takeover, said that under Rivero, Diario had "attacked all that signifies truth, justice, patriotism and decency in our Cuba...